Beijing Announces Military Drills in South China Sea After US Aircraft Carrier Enters Area © AP Photo / Bao Xuelin Oleg Burunov. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/asia/202101261081885253-beijing-announces-military-drills-in-south-china-sea-after-us-aircraft-carrier-enters-area-/ On Monday, Beijing accused Washington of “flexing its muscles” in the region, a few days after the US Navy sent the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group to the South China Sea “to foster maritime security”. The Chinese military is due to conduct drills in the South China Sea later this week, the country’s Maritime Safety Administration said on Tuesday, declining to elaborate on the exact date and on what scale the exercises will be carried…
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