UPDATED. The US Navy says the USS Milius' navigational rights and freedom mission in the South China Sea is consistent with international law.
BEIJING, China – A US Navy destroyer sailed near one of the most important man-made and Chinese controlled islands in the South China Sea on Monday, April 10, in a freedom of navigation mission that Beijing denounced as illegal.
“Under customary international law … features like Mischief Reef that are submerged at high tide in their naturally formed state are not entitled to a territorial sea,” the 7th Fleet said in a statement. China’s People’s Liberation Army said the US ship had “illegally” entered waters near the reef without Chinese approval, and its forces had monitored the vessel and warned it.
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