China said it was responding to a provocation when one of its ships approached a patrol in international waters. MORE ⬇️
A high-level Chinese official defended a close encounter between Chinese and U.S. warships in the Taiwan Strait on Saturday.
The U.S. and Canadian ships were making what is known as a"freedom of navigation" patrol. Since 1979, U.S. military vessels have routinely made patrols as a way to support international law and resist countries that"unlawfully restrict the freedoms of navigation and overflight and other lawful uses of the sea."
In an international address Saturday, China's defense minister Gen. Li Shangfu said China"must prevent attempts that try to use those freedom of navigation , that innocent passage, to exercise hegemony of navigation."U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin countered that the U.S. would continue its patrols in the international waters of the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, pushing back on China's territorial claims. He said the U.S.
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