The Chinese defence ministry urged the United States on Thursday to rein in its frontline forces which Beijing has said have become more active in the air and seas near China this year.
China has frequently maintained that a U.S. military presence in the South China Sea, East China Sea and Taiwan Strait is the main destabilising factor in the region. The United States has said it has freedom of navigation in these areas, which China regards as its geo-strategic backyard.
Since U.S. President Joe Biden U.S. took office in January, operations of U.S. warships in the seas around China have risen by 20%, while the activity of U.S. reconnaissance aircraft has risen by 40% compared with last year, Chinese defence ministry spokesman Wu Qian told a press briefing on Thursday.
A former Cape Cod-based Coast Guard cutter had a tense encounter with an Iranian vessel earlier this month in the southern Persian Gulf.
The Monomoy, whose homeport was previously Coast Guard Station Woods Hole, was conducting a routine security patrol April 2 with another U.S. patrol vessel when the Harth 55, attached to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, repeatedly crossed the bows of the U.S. vessels at extremely close range, according to Rebecca Rebarich, spokesperson for the U.S. 5th Fleet.
“The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy’s actions were deemed unsafe and unprofessional,” Rebarich said in an email to the Times on Thursday. “Their actions increased the risk of miscalculation and collision.”
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CHENNAI: Denied fair and proper compensation and not even a single word of remorse, the family of two Tamil fishermen whose bodies were retrieved after their mechanised boat IFB Rabha was hit by Singapore flagship vessel MV APL Le Havre, have served a legal notice to the authorities to detain the vessel. Sumathi, wife of Henlin Alexander and daughter of Dasan Channappa, whose bodies were retrieved, has served a legal notice to Ministry of External Affairs, Director General of Shipping, Shipping Secretary and Indian Coast Guard seeking their intervention to initiate negotiations with the shipping company or P&I club or Flag State Administration to ensure that fair and proper compensation is paid to the victims’ family as the accident took place due to the ship’s rash and negligent navigation by violating Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972.
UPDATE 1-China urges U.S. to restrain frontline forces in nearby seas Reuters 3 days ago
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BEIJING, April 29 (Reuters) - The Chinese defense ministry urged the United States on Thursday to rein in its frontline forces which Beijing has said have become more active in the air and seas near China this year.
China has frequently maintained that a U.S. military presence in the South China Sea, East China Sea and Taiwan Strait is the main destabilizing factor in the region. The United States has said it has freedom of navigation in these areas, which China regards as its geo-strategic backyard.
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