The United States on Monday sent a guided-missile destroyer to challenge 12-nautical-mile territorial limits that China claims around artificial islands it built in the South China Sea.
The patrols would be the first within 12 miles of the features since China began building the reefs up in 2014. The United States last went within 12 miles of Chinese-claimed territory in the Spratlys in 2012.
Source : YAHOO! NEWS
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learn2be
To see who have better water guns?
Mark
Sorry but the Navy does not announce their operational plans like this article has you to believe.
Anthony
GO US NAVY!!!
1Buddy
All things done in public are discussed in private, this will probably be the only time this will be allowed thus saving face for Obama and allowing China to take the sea going forward. Obamas weak hand at work, nothing more.
BERT
And after the Chinese get up off the floor from laughing so hard they will build six more artificial Islands and two more air strips.
Zephon
Doing such will just give China a reason to increase their military, including the presence in China's South China Seas where these Islands of theirs are. We will just look like a hypocritical bully. As we recognized these Islands as being Chinese after their return from Japan at the end of WWII per the Japanese surrender agreement and Peace treaties with China.
MarkS
What concerns me is, what if the Chinese decide to seize our ship, another Pueblo on our hands? I say that with the gut feeling President Obama's image may invite just that. If you think about the Ukraine, Syria and other matters it's clear that there would be a volume of words & little or no action. It would though, give Secretary Kerry something do do.
Real
The US is desperately looking for a war with China.
7againstThebes
They are not islands. They are platforms.
KD 7
This is fair if U.S. does the same thing to all disputed or reclaimed islands in the South China Sea. If this is on to the ones claimed by China, then this is anti-China and unfair to China. On the other hand, this can be a dangerous move - China could do the same thing to all islands it has dispute with other countries, and this can cause many wars.
Benjamin
Why would China interfere with freedom of navigation in the
South China Sea? A big part of that traffic is going to and
from China. B.S. article.
Knowledge
Washington merely trying to save face. They will probably pass by at 11.99 miles out. Washington as well as the American public have no interest in a conflict with China.
Bear
Has someone told Obama you can't draw red lines on water.
Denis
Territorial issues cannot be resolved by negotiation, it must be resolved by force. China should NOT allow any country that challenges China's legal territorial claims.
Richard
Why is our government run by dweebs?
wow
It is our right to navigate and spy freely all over the world!
Eric L
I'm wondering if the U.S. Navy has decided what they will do if a Chinese ship gets too close, or bumps the U.S. ship? Or if a Chinese military jet buzzes the U.S. ship, or lights up the U.S. surveillance planes with targeting radar? Will there be a response, or just a complaint filed by the U.S. to the Chinese government which will get no where?
Francisco
Everybody on that destroyer better be at their battle stations and in full gear in case the Chinese get the jitters and fire at them something...
Bill
The US will never give up sailing wherever it wants outside the internationally recognized 12 mile limit. If any country tries to stop the Navy in international water, there will be a war. You can bet money on that.
JohnnyG
what a conundrum for liberals, socialists, communists, democrats (same thing) do they support their fellow travelers to socialist utopia - the Chinese - or do they back their socialist president employing the US Military they despise insuring we have freedom of the seas for this nation they too despise.
dink_the_doughnut
I think the big 3 are just gearing things up to cull the global herd. Ukraine, Syria and the Spratly archipelago are just props for the illusionists. Stir up the trouble, send in the peasants to destroy each other, the peasants never knowing they've been duped. Cull the global herd for a few or tens of hundreds of thousands or millions of people, opps! did I say people I meant peasants. Then the rest......not so much to have to share now, the fatties can continue living fat off the peasants and the peasants will continue being duped by the fatties whom they serve.
john
This threat of Obama is hollow. He doesn't have the balls to tell China to get off that area. China and the rest of the world doesn't listen to this joke US President. He draws red line in the middle of his crotch and scratch it thereafter...
Real
What if China accidentally sunk the ship?
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