At Least Three Chinese Naval Task Forces Reported Entering Philippine Sea for Drills
https://sputniknews.com/20221219/at-least-three-chinese-naval-task-forces-reported-entering-philippine-sea-for-drills-1105619519.html
If China was to exercise kinetic naval power, they would move their groups out into the Phillipine Sea like this. It does a number of things for them, but primarily gives them room to maneuver and pushes the trip wires and battle space farther out and away from the mainland.
Doing this right now, means that the atheist country is staffed up and on the move, while the Christian nations are all home on leave.
They always start as exercises.
Chek't quintskreig