Video shows China ship’s ‘unsafe’ maneuver with US destroyer

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WASHINGTON – The US Navy released a damning video Monday of a Chinese warship deliberately cutting across the path of a US guided-missile destroyer in the Taiwan Strait in a move Washington deemed “unsafe.” In the 30-second clip, a Chinese guided-missile destroyer cuts ahead of the USS Chung-Hoon and Canadian frigate HMCS Montreal as they were sailing through the 100-mile-wide channel, which separates mainland China from the island of Taiwan. The Chinese ship then cuts diagonally from the American ship’s port side, roughly 150 yards away from the Chung-Hoon’s bow, US Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) said in a statement. The US...