MANILA: The Philippine military said on Saturday (Aug 10) that it strongly condemns "dangerous and provocative actions" by China's air force at a contested shoal in the South China Sea. Two People's Liberation Army Air Force aircraft executed a dangerous manoeuvre and dropped flares in the path of a Philippine air force aircraft conducting a routine maritime patrol over the Scarborough shoal on Thursday morning, the military said in a statement. It "endangered the lives of our personnel