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

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OTTAWA — 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 frigate HMCS Montreal were conducting a so-called "freedom of navigation" transit of the strait between Taiwan and mainland China. China claims the democratic self-governing island of Taiwan as part of its own...