The presence of the US warship near the South China Sea
China's military announced on Monday that a US warship illegally approached the waters near the South China Sea, and this action violated China's sovereignty. |
According to Fars News Agency, the Chinese military on Monday accused an American warship of trespassing in the waters near the South China Sea.
According to the weekly report “Newsweek” Tian Junli, one of the spokespersons of the Chinese military, said that the USS Gabriel Giffords ship did not have the approval of the Chinese government to operate in the Spratly Islands, and that this action of the American ship was a “serious violation of sovereignty and China’s national security.
The spokesman of the Chinese army stated that the Chinese naval units monitored the American warship while passing through the waters of the region and warned it. He said that the US was deliberately creating trouble in the South China Sea. South China may be related to the presence of hundreds of Chinese boats near the coast of the Philippines on Sunday.
The Philippines claimed on Sunday that more than 135 Chinese ships were seen off the coast of the country. The Philippine Coast Guard claimed that Chinese boats were present about 320 kilometers west of the island of “Palawan”. with its allies and partners in maintaining the free and open Indo-Pacific region.
The media recently reported that at the same time as the US-Philippines exercise and air patrols and The joint sea of these two countries, the Chinese military was put on alert in the South China Sea. On the date of the Yamasakura exercise, participate in the joint military exercise between Japan and the United States.
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