A Chinese warship came within 137 meters of a US destroyer in the Taiwan Strait in "an unsafe manner," US military officials said, as China blamed the United States for "deliberately provoking risk" in the region.
A Chinese warship can be seen just before it cuts across the US destroyer Chung-Hoon in the Taiwan Strait on June 3, 2023, in video taken by Canada's Global News. Screenshot from Global News video obtained by Reuters
The People's Republic of China has claimed self-ruled Taiwan as 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 US President Joe Biden has said the US would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion.
The US Indo-Pacific Command said the Chung-Hoon and Canada's Montreal were conducting a "routine" transit of the strait when the Chinese ship cut in front of the American vessel. Video footage broadcast by Canadian website Global News showed the close encounter between the ships.The maritime encounter was the latest close call between the Chinese and US military. On May 26, a Chinese fighter jetnear a US military plane over the South China Sea in international airspace, the US Indo-Pacific Command said on Tuesday.
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