‘Unsafe’ action by China near American ship in Taiwan Strait, says US military

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A CHINESE NAVY ship maneuvered in an “unsafe manner” near an American destroyer transiting the Taiwan Strait, the US military has said. It is 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 fighter’s near one of Washington’s surveillance planes last week. The Chinese ship “executed maneuvers in an unsafe manner in the vicinity of Chung-Hoon” (an American destroyer), during the Saturday transit, the US Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement. Beijing’s ship “overtook Chung-Hoon on their port side...