A US Navy guided-missile destroyer cruised near a Chinese man-made military outpost in the West Philippine Sea on Monday, drawing condemnation from China, which described the warship’s entry into the waters as an “illegal” intrusion. | FMangosingINQ
The Chinese official added that Beijing’s air force “followed and carried out surveillance of the vessel.”
Beijing has since transformed the underwater feature into one of its biggest artificially built islands in the Spratly chain, also known in the Philippines as the Kalayaan island group. The island base has a 3-km airstrip, missile shelters, hangars and radars. China claims the entire South China Sea, including the West Philippine Sea, waters within the country’s EEZ, while the Philippines, China, Brunei, Vietnam, Taiwan and Malaysia have overlapping claims in the area.In a landmark 2016 ruling, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands, rejected China’s massive “nine-dash-line” claims in the sea.
After the operation, the Milius “exited the excessive claim area and continued operations in the South China Sea,” it said.
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