![]() warship entry to Hong Kong and Beijing’s top naval officer canceled a high-level meeting with his U.S. this week accused China’s navy of “unsafe and unprofessional” conduct near an occupied reef in the South China Sea after a Chinese destroyer maneuvered close to the bow of an American warship attempting to assert navigation rights. as committed to containing China economically and militarily - making a settlement on the trade dispute even more unlikely in 2018.” “It would also empower the hardliners in China that view the U.S. naval exercise of this magnitude in its territorial waters as a significant provocation, likely further cutting off mil-to-mil contact,” said Broderick. The plan fits with the “larger consequences” Secretary of Defence James Mattis referred to at June’s Shangri-La Dialogue security conference that China would face for militarizing the South China Sea, according to Kelsey Broderick, an associate for Asia at Eurasia Group in Washington. A Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion Iron Horse helicopter takes off from the deck of the USS Wasp over a Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey on Jan. penalized China over the alleged purchase by Beijing of Russian combat aircraft and surface-to-air missiles, which it the U.S. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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