Wednesday, 17 February 2021_The United States Navy says it has sailed a warship near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea.
The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Russell, with hundreds of US military personnel aboard, sailed near the Chinese-claimed Spratly Islands.
The move marked the latest attempt by the administration of US President Joe Biden to supposedly challenge China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.
It was the second such act of provocation under Biden. Earlier this month, two American carrier groups conducted a joint exercise near the Chinese-claimed Paracel Islands.
The US Navy claimed it “conducted a multitude of exercises aimed at increasing interoperability between assets as well as command and control capabilities,” adding that through those exercises, the Navy “asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the vicinity of the Paracel Islands, consistent with international law.”
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