After two incidents between the US and Chinese militaries, the Pentagon on Sunday denounced Beijing’s “increasingly risky” actions in Asia.
“We remain concerned about the increasingly risky and coercive activities of the People’s Liberation Army in the region, including in recent days,” said Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder, who is assisting with the US Defense Secretary. United States, Lloyd Austin, at a security conference in Singapore.
The “dangerous” zigzag of a Chinese ship
These remarks come after two incidents involving US and Chinese militaries in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea in the past ten days.
The US Navy accused a Chinese ship on Saturday of “dangerously” weaving around one of its destroyers that was sailing through the Taiwan Strait in the company of a Canadian ship. The Chinese ship “passed the Chung-Hoon on the port side and crossed her bow at 150 meters. The Chung-Hoon maintained her course and slowed to 10 (knots) to avoid a collision,” the Chinese ship said. release.
It then “passed in front of Chung-Hoon’s bow for the second time from starboard to port at 2,000 meters” and continued sailing alongside the US destroyer which it approached to 150 meters, the text adds.
Beijing blames the US and Canada
This incident took place when the USS Chung-Hoon, an Aegis destroyer that is part of the United States Pacific Fleet, was sailing alongside the Canadian ship HMCS Montreal in the 180 km-wide Taiwan Strait that separates the autonomous island from same name on the mainland. Porcelain.
China did not mention the incident, but accused the United States and Canada of “intentionally causing trouble in the Taiwan Strait,” over which it claims sovereign rights.
Washington also accused a Chinese fighter pilot of conducting “an unwarranted aggressive maneuver” near a US reconnaissance plane flying over the South China Sea on May 26. Beijing accused the US plane of having “deliberately broken into” a training area in China “to carry out reconnaissance (operations).
Source: BFM TV
