A top US Navy officer says Malaysia has offered to let the US use one of its airbases to fly military spy planes over the South China Sea, a move that will likely increase frictions with Beijing.
The Malaysian government recently asked the US to operate the P-8 Poseidon aircraft from the country’s most eastern area, giving the Americans greater proximity to the South China Sea, Admiral Jonathan Greenert, the US Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), said in Washington on Monday.
Discussions between Malaysia and the United States for the use of the Sabah air base in northeast Malaysia have been going on for some time, according to a senior Asian diplomat who declined to be named .... http://www.presstv.ir
