Chinese warship passed in ‘unsafe manner’ near US destroyer in Taiwan Strait, say military officials

A Chinese vessel approached within 150 yards (137 metres) of a US destroyer in the Taiwan Strait in "an unsafe manner," according to US military sources, as China accused the US of "deliberately provoking risk" in the region. The US and Canadian navies were conducting a joint exercise in the Taiwan Strait, which separates the island of Taiwan and China, on Saturday when a Chinese ship cut in front of the US guided-missile destroyer Chung-Hoon, forcing it to slow down to avoid a collision, according to the US Indo-Pacific Command. Since the defeated Republic of China government retreated to the…