US reports ‘unsafe’ action by China in Taiwan Strait

WASHINGTON — A Chinese Navy ship maneuvered in an “unsafe manner” near an American destroyer transiting the Taiwan Strait, the US military said Saturday, amid a top security conference attended by defense officials of Beijing as well as Washington and its allies.

This was the second close encounter between American and Chinese military assets in less than 10 days, following what the US military said was an “unnecessarily aggressive maneuver” by one of Beijing’s fighters near one of Washington’s surveillance planes over the South China Sea last week.

The Chinese ship “executed maneuvers in an unsafe manner in the vicinity of Chung-Hoon,” a US destroyer, during the Saturday tra…

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