Two U.S. supercarriers are drilling with Japan s defense force, bringing the number of flattops in the region to four amid simmering tensions with China.
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The United States has stepped up its military operations in the disputed South China Sea this year, according to new research from China. The Beijing-based South China Sea Probing Initiative said the US military conducted 52 reconnaissance flights over the South China Sea in October. The number of reconnaissance flights in October was down from the 62 recorded in September,.
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A US warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, the second such passage under the Biden administration. The US Navy’s Seventh Fleet said the guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur made the provocative maneuver.
Beijing denounced the provocation. “The move artificially creates risk factors in the Taiwan Strait, deliberately undermines regional peace and stability, we are firmly opposed to this,” a spokesperson for China’s People’s Liberation Army said.
As part of its hardline China policies, the Trump administration stepped up passages through the Taiwan Strait. In 2020, the US sailed warships through the Taiwan Strait 13 times, the most maneuvers since at least 2007, according to the South China Sea Probing Initiative.