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In 2015, Singapore and the United States signed an enhancement of a security agreement first put in place in 1990. From 2013, the city state started hosting rotationally deployed US littoral combat ships and later state-of-the-art P-8 Poseidon spy planes. Military observers say Singapore has served as a vital launching point for US assets into the disputed South China Sea, where the Western power regularly conducts “freedom of navigation” exercises.
In 2015, Singapore and the United States signed an enhancement of a security agreement first put in place in 1990. From 2013, the city state started hosting rotationally deployed US littoral combat ships and later state-of-the-art P-8 Poseidon spy planes. Military observers say Singapore has served as a vital launching point for US assets into the disputed South China Sea, where the Western power regularly conducts “freedom of navigation” exercises.
