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The 46th Navy of the Military Fleet Liberation of the Chinese people sail from the military port to Zhangiya, Guangdong South China, February 21, 2024.
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China said on Wednesday that he warned and “left” the American destroyer, who sailed off the coast of the controversial treasury in the South -Chinese Sea – one of the most valuable delivery worldwide.
USS Higgins Destroyer “illegally entered the territorial waters in China near Huanian Island without approval of the Chinese government”, “” The country’s Ministry Said, according to CNBC translation in Mandarin.
Huanian Island is the name that China uses to refer to the ring that was the subject of marine dispute between China and the Philippines.
China has accused US military of “serious” violation of its sovereignty, adding that America’s actions are “strongly undermined by peace and stability in the South China Sea, as well as violating international law and fundamental rules governing international relations.”
USS Higgins – This is a military ship with the seventh US fleet, Basted in Yokosuka, Japan. Sarah Maryl, the Navy Press, said CNBC that the USS Higgins is conducting a “navigation operation” in accordance with international law.
File: Managed Expands USS Higgins (DDG 76), foreground and aircraft carrier Nimitz Class USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70).
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“China’s statement about this mission is false … The United States defends its right to fly, swim and act where international law does not allow, as USS Higgins did. Nothing that China says that it will not be restrained otherwise,” Maryl added.
The incident occurs at a time when Washington and Beijing are closed in a trade plus that has taken two problems that are borrowed and China warns that it is ready “A trading war or any other type of war “,” From the US before the tension subsided.
On Tuesday, Chinese warship crashed into one of your own coast guard vessels As he was chasing behind a patrol boat owned Philippines.
China claims that almost all of the South China Sea as its “under it”nine jerk“which deflects Decree of 2016 The International Arbitration Court in the Netherlands, which found no legal and historical basis for Beijing’s requirements.
Were Several clashes between Chinese and Philippine ships In the South -Kitan Sea, when the Philippines accused Beijing for the Philippine ships last year and the referral of the aircraft patrols near another challenged reef.
According to the Philippine officials, collisions of the boats, water guns and injuries of the Philippine sailors participated in the clashes.
In May 2024, President of the Philippine Ferdinand Markas -Jr. said he said If a citizen of the Philippines is killed in the South -Chinese Sea Through the incident with the Chinese Coast Guard, it will almost certainly be a “red line” and “very, very close to what we define as an act of war.”
He added that “our contracts, I believe, also consider the same standard”, citing US forces. Washington has a mutual defense agreement From Manila since 1951, which states that the attack on either the Philippines or the US in the Pacific is considered an attack on the second.
