US Navy to boost sailings in South China Sea

‘The United States Navy plans to ramp up what it calls “freedom of navigation” operations in the South China Sea, in the face of harsh criticisms from China that views the move as provocation.

The sailings involve a US warship coming within 12 nautical miles of islets claimed by China as a way of rebutting Beijing’s assertions of sovereignty.

“We’ll be doing them more and we’ll be doing them with greater complexity in the future,” Admiral Harry Harris, the commander of the US Pacific Command, told lawmakers in Washington.’

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