India monitored several Chinese ships that appeared in a portion of the South China Sea where a flotilla of Southeast Asian nations’ warships were engaged in military drills, according to a government official.India and Singapore co-hosted the final day of the weeklong Asean-India Maritime Exercise involving nine ships, six aircraft, and over 1,800 personnel from across the grouping’s nations, and were expected to trawl international waters along the transit route to the Philippines.