China Warns Biden Not to Flex Muscles After Dual Aircraft Carrier Drill
On 2/9/21 at 12:46 PM EST
China has delivered a warning to the new U.S. administration not to meddle in the sensitive South China Sea region, where President Joe Biden has ordered some of his first naval moves since assuming the commander-in-chief title just weeks ago.
The U.S. Navy s Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group joined the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group on Tuesday for rare dual aircraft carrier exercises involving the massive Nimitz-class warships alongside accompanying vessels and aircraft.
It was the first time two aircraft carriers trained together in the South China Sea since July, and the first time the two groups involved joined forces since June, when they conducted joint operations in the Philippine Sea.
Washington: A US aircraft carrier group sailed into the South China Sea on a so-called freedom of navigation exercise, the first routine operation in the region under new President Joe Biden.Led.
China sent two large formations of warplanes close to the island of Taiwan, a self governing island, that Beijing claims belongs to mainland China. The musc
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