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news South China Sea: US destroyer sails near Spratly Islands to ‘assert navigational rights’ The USS John S. McCain neared the contested Spratly Islands on Tuesday. Photo: US Navy via AP The US Navy sent a destroyer near the Spratly Islands in the disputed South China Sea on Tuesday to "challenge restrictions on innocent passage imposed by China, Vietnam, and Taiwan". The operation came after the United States military warned in a document last week that it would be "more assertive" against Beijing. The document set out objectives for the US Navy, Marines and Coast Guard for 2021. In a ...

Hours now. thankfully, as you mentioned, 8 of the 11 people were rescued yesterday and taken aboard the "uss ronald reagan" and are said to be in good condition. but this has been a horrendous year for the u.s. 7th fleet. the latest in a string of accidents, two of which have been fatal. the "uss john mccain" and an oil tanker collided near singapore in august, leaving ten dead. seven dead in japan, prompting the removal of eight top navy officers from their posts including the 7 fleet commander. now, the navy has said they'll be launching a full investigation into this latest calamity but it ...

Three personnel by japanese forces is still ongoing. the greyhound is a decades old bibut reliable workhorse of the fleet, flying people on and off carrier jets. >> the fact that eight personnel were able to survive this incident tells us there was probably a skilled pilot at the stick who was able to bring this aircraft down to the sea in such a way the plane didn't break up. >> reporter: it's been a difficult and deadly year for the navy's seventh fleet. 17 u.s. sailors killed in two collisions, the "u.s.s. john s. mccain" and "u.s.s. fitzgerald" each colliding with commercial ships, a total...

Admiral, this is an extraordinary move. this doesn't happen. >> no, it doesn't. it's very, very unusual, jake. in fact, navy officials i've spoken to, they can't tell me the last time when they remember a fleet commander actually being relieved of duty. what's really unusual, and you hit it in your opening, four navigation-related incidents in the fleet in the last four months, two of them with lethal consequences. i'm not surprised that the navy did take this unusual step. >> a defense security analyst of cnn said navy operations in the western pacific are being stretched too thin. is that a ...

Terms of these accidents and this trend. now, there may be other reasons here. the tempo we talked about, budget uncertainty, training, material readiness but a lot of that also comes under the fleet commander's purview so what that tells me is they believe leadership at that level was wanting. >> all four of these could simply be a convinincidence or . >> exactly. and they won't knowing in they get done these last two investigations but i think they'll probably find some threads here. also i think one of the threads here is the leader himself, the commander has authority and responsibility fo...