{"id":83134,"date":"2024-08-29T15:39:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T15:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/08\/29\/range-of-options-ready-for-south-china-sea-aggression-us-admiral\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:32:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:32:52","slug":"range-of-options-ready-for-south-china-sea-aggression-us-admiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2024\/08\/29\/range-of-options-ready-for-south-china-sea-aggression-us-admiral\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Range of options\u2019 ready for South China Sea aggression: US admiral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American forces are ready with a \u201crange of options\u201d to deal with increasing acts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/china\/\">aggression in the disputed South China Sea<\/a> if ordered to carry them out jointly and after consultations with treaty ally the Philippines, a U.S. admiral said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Indo-Pacific Command chief Adm. Samuel Paparo, who heads the biggest number of combat forces outside the U.S. mainland, refused to provide details of the contingency options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paparo&#8217;s comments came when asked at a news conference what the longtime treaty allies could do to deal with China\u2019s so-called gray-zone tactics in the disputed waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2024\/08\/27\/us-military-open-to-escorting-philippine-ships-in-south-china-sea\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP24240186341794.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US military open to escorting Philippine ships in South China Sea<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Adm. Samuel Paparo says the U.S. military is open to the possibility, depending on consultations under the allies\u2019 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cgray-zone tactics\u201d refer to types of assault, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2024\/04\/30\/china-fires-water-cannons-at-philippine-ships-in-south-china-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">water cannon fire<\/a> and the blocking and ramming of rival ships in the disputed waters, that are under the threshold of an actual armed attack and wouldn\u2019t allow the Philippines to invoke its 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty with the U.S. The treaty obligates either country to help the other in case of an armed external attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe certainly have prepared a range of options and USINDOPACOM stands ready, if so called, after consultations in accordance with the treaty to execute those shoulder to shoulder with our ally,\u201d Paparo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Detailing those U.S. military options would allow \u201cthe potential adversary\u201d to \u201cbuild a countermeasure to those,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paparo held a joint news conference with Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Gen. Romero Brawner Jr., after both led an annual meeting in the northern Philippine mountain city of Baguio to discuss security challenges and military plans. They include the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/training-sim\/2024\/06\/04\/us-philippines-expand-exercise-to-territorial-edges-amid-tension-with-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">Balikatan<\/a> \u2014 Tagalog for \u201cshoulder to shoulder\u201d \u2014 the treaty allies\u2019 largest combat exercises, which in April involved more than 16,000 American and Philippine forces and were partly staged in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to a question, Paparo repeated the U.S. military is open, after treaty consultations with the Philippines, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2024\/08\/27\/us-military-open-to-escorting-philippine-ships-in-south-china-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">escorting Philippine ships<\/a> in the South China Sea amid a spike in hostilities between Beijing and Manila in the disputed waters. Such a prospect would risk putting U.S. Navy ships in direct collisions with those of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Washington and Beijing have been on a collision course over China\u2019s increasingly assertive actions to defend its territorial claims in the South China Sea, and Beijing\u2019s stated goal of annexing Taiwan, by force if necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brawner said the Philippines could still fend for itself in the disputed waters, where hostilities with the Chinese coast guard, navy and suspected militia ships have alarmingly spiked since last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf we exhaust all the options and nothing works, then that\u2019s the time we can ask for help,\u201d Brawner told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Philippine forces in the disputed waters \u201care at the verge of dying,\u201d because food supplies were being blocked by Chinese forces, \u201cthen that\u2019s the time that we are going to seek the help of the United States,\u201d Brawner said, but added that \u201cwe still have a lot of options.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During combat exercises by U.S. and Philippine forces in April, the U.S. military transported a midrange missile system to the northern Philippines, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/asia-pacific\/2024\/08\/18\/china-dramatically-alarmed-by-us-missile-deployment-philippines\/#:~:text=China%20'dramatically'%20alarmed%20by%20US%20missile%20deployment%3A%20Philippines,-By%20The%20Associated&#038;text=MANILA%2C%20Philippines%20%E2%80%94%20China%20expressed%20its,it%20could%20destabilize%20the%20region.\" target=\"_blank\">angering China<\/a>, which warned that the missile system can trigger a regional arms race and endanger regional stability. Beijing demanded the U.S. missile system, which can threaten mainland China, be pulled out of the Philippines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paparo and Brawner refused to say on Thursday if and when the missile system would be flown out of the Philippines. Brawner thanked the U.S. military for transporting the high-tech weaponry to the country, saying Philippine forces were being exposed to advance defense equipment that the Philippine military plan to acquire in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Just like what we did with the Stingers and with the Javelins, we start training already even if we don\u2019t have them yet in our inventory,\u201d Brawner said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China has angered the Philippines by repeatedly harassing its navy and coast guard ships with powerful water cannons, a military-grade laser, blocking movements and other dangerous maneuvers in the high seas near two disputed South China Sea shoals. 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