The United States will conduct freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea again, US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said in a speech on Saturday, although he gave no timeline for any such actions.
Carter’s comments, delivered at a defence forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, came at the close of a trip to Asia, where he cruised on a US aircraft carrier operating in the South China Sea and blamed Beijing’s island-building for rising tensions in the region.
In October, a US guided-missile destroyer, the USS Lassen, challenged territorial limits around one of China’s man-made islands in …read more
Source: Daily News & Analysis
