China nearly hitting U.S. warship is ‘clearly provocative’: ex-navy head
Since it happened, China’s defence minister, Gen. Li Shangfu, said in a gathering in Singapore of some of the world’s top defence officials — including U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin — that China doesn’t have a problem with “innocent passage.”
Austin told the same forum in Singapore on Saturday that the U.S. would not “flinch in the face of bullying or coercion” from China and would continue regularly sailing through and flying over the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea to emphasize they are international waters.U.S. accuses Chinese jet fighter of ‘unnecessarily aggressive’ intercept of spy plane over South China Sea
Norman said China’s claim that the Taiwan Strait is its own territorial waters is completely false and is not supported by the international community.
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