China irresponsible over Taiwan Strait collision risk with Canada, U.S. ships, Anand says


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Open this photo in gallery: Defence Minister Anita Anand makes a keynote address at the CANSEC trade show, billed as North America’s largest multi-service defence event, in Ottawa on May 31.Justin Tang/The Canadian Press Defence Minister Anita Anand says Beijing acted irresponsibly on the weekend in the Taiwan Strait, where Washington says a Chinese warship forced a U.S. vessel to avoid a collision near a Canadian frigate. “China must behave responsibly,” Anand wrote in a Monday statement, hours after the U.S. military released video of what it called an “unsafe” Chinese manoeuvre Saturday. The American destroyer USS Chung-Hoon and Canadian...