The US military is deploying
"unprecedented" numbers to the Asia-Pacific region, raising the risk of an incident with China's navy, a senior Chinese official said Tuesday.
For its part, Beijing has infuriated other nations by building artificial islands with military installations in parts of the sea."The US military deployment in the Asia-Pacific region is unprecedented," said Wu Shicun, president of the National Institute of South China Sea Studies, a government think tank."The possibility of a military incident or an accidental shot fired is rising," Wu said.
During former president Barack Obama's eight years in office, the US navy conducted four freedom of navigation operations while there have been 22 of them under Trump, Wu said. The two militaries"Should step up communication" in order"to prevent strategic misunderstanding and miscalculation", according to the report.
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