The guy he was dealing with worked in a nuclear
submarine station.
Last month, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said a Chinese survey ship was seen sailing around the region for three months last year, adding that he had received reports indicating the Chinese were looking for possible
submarine stations.
LION2 is a 2,700 km extension of the 2009-launched LION regional cable system, connecting two new
submarine stations in Mombasa on the Kenyan coast and on the French island of Mayotte to existing stations in Madgascar, La Reunion and Mauritius.
The Trafalgar-class
submarine stationed in the Mediterranean fired Tomahawk missiles at Libyan air defence targets during the opening two nights of co-ordinated action.
Navy nuclear
submarine stationed in the Red Sea has joined the fight against international terrorism.
Williams, whose son serves on a
submarine stationed in Washington state, said that, contrary to media reports, service people are behind the president and proud of the mission in Iraq.
The former marine captain maintained that the country should use the favorable United Nations arbitral decision to assert the country's maritime rights over the resource-rich West Philippine Sea and even the Benham Rise, a biodiversity hotspot east of Luzon where recently Chinese ships had been spotted allegedly looking for
submarine stations.
China had said the Philippines could not claim Benham Rise as its own territory, and that the passage of the Chinese survey ships supposedly to look for
submarine stations was an 'innocent passage' and part of its freedom of navigation supported by international law.
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana earlier said a Chinese survey ship was seen sailing around the region for three months last year, adding that he had received reports indicating the Chinese were looking for possible
submarine stations.