A Chinese warship came within 150 yards (137 meters) of a U.S. destroyer in the Taiwan Strait in 'an unsafe manner,' U.S. military officials said, as China blamed the United States for 'deliberately provoking risk' in the region.
U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon sails alongside the Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Montreal during Surface Action Group operations as a part of exercise “Noble Wolverine" in the South China Sea May 30, 2023. U.S. Navy/Naval Air Crewman 1st Class Dalton...WASHINGTON, June 4 - A Chinese warship came within 150 yards of a U.S. destroyer in the Taiwan Strait in "an unsafe manner," U.S.
U.S. and Canadian navies were conducting a joint exercise in the strait, which separates the island of Taiwan and China, when the Chinese ship cut in front of the U.S. guided-missile destroyer Chung-Hoon forcing it to slow down to avoid a collision, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Commandas its territory since the defeated Republic of China government fled to the island in 1949 after losing a civil war to Mao Zedong's communists. Taiwan's government says the PRC has never ruled the island and U.S.
The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet said the Chung-Hoon and Canada's Montreal conducted a "routine" transit of the strait on Saturday.
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