White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby expressed “the US’s concern” over China’s “unsafe and unprofessional” behavior at a news conference.
Events like this “can lead to miscalculations when there are pieces of metal that size, both in the air and at sea,” said John Kirby.
“If they’re operating that closely,” he continued, “it won’t be long before there’s an error of judgment or just one error and someone gets hurt. And that becomes unacceptable, it should be unacceptable for them as well,” he said.
John Kirby believed that there is an increasing aggressiveness of Chinese forces, mainly in the Taiwan Strait and in the South Asian Sea.
The incident between the US destroyer and Chinese warship in the Taiwan Strait on Saturday comes after the Pentagon on May 30 called out the “unnecessary” and “aggressive” maneuvers of a Chinese fighter jet to target a US reconnaissance aircraft in the southern China region on May 30. Sea to intercept, denounced.
Source: DN
