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PLA garrison ‘warns off’ US Navy destroyer sailing close to island in disputed area of South China Sea
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China’s defence ministry said on Saturday that a PLA garrison on an island in a disputed area of the South China Sea had taken action to warn off and repel a US Navy destroyer that had entered its territorial waters.
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Defence ministry spokesperson Yang Yujun said in a statement that China strongly opposed the “provocative move” by the United States.
The Pentagon had earlier said that the USS Curtis Wilbur had sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island in the South China Sea on Saturday.
A Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davies said the aim of the patrol was to challenge efforts to restrict freedom of navigation in the area.
“This operation challenged attempts by the three claimants - [mainland] China, Taiwan and Vietnam - to restrict navigation rights and freedoms,” he said.
Davis said no ships from China’s military were in the area when the US warship carried out its patrol in the Paracel islands on Saturday.
However, Yang said the PLA garrison on the island had given warnings and taken action to expel the US warship. He did not give details of what kind of action was taken.
READ MORE: Warships sent, US ambassador called in as China bolsters Navy presence in disputed Spratly islands, after US sail-by rattles Beijing’s sovereignty claims
The island is known as Zhongjian Dao in Chinese. It has been controlled by the PLA since 1974 after a naval conflict with Vietnam.
It is the first time the US Navy has challenged China’s territorial claims in the Paracel islands.
A US warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of Mischief and Subi reefs in the Spatly Islands in another disputed area of the South China Sea in October last year.
The patrol incensed China’s government, which described the action as a dangerous provocation.
Pentagon spokesman Davis said the latest operation sought to challenge policies that require prior permission or notification of transit within territorial waters.
“No claimants were notified prior to the transit, which is consistent with our normal process and international law,” he said.
A spokeswoman for China’s foreign ministry, Hua Chunying, said the US warship had acted illegally in entering Chinese waters, state television reported.
She urged the US to respect China’s laws and do more to help maintain regional peace and stability.
China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than US$5 trillion of world trade is shipped every year.
Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan have rival claims.
China has been rapidly developing man-made islands in the region, including building runways, increasing tensions among its neighbours.
READ MORE: China’s neighbours wary of taking sides in Sino-US South China Sea dispute
Li Jie, a Beijing-based naval expert, said the US operation was a direct challenge to China’s claims of sovereignty in the disputed waters.
“The US is trying to test the bottom line of China in the South China Sea issue,” Li said.
He described it as an “unfriendly move” that might challenge relations between the two countries.
Ni Lexiong, a Shanghai-based naval expert, said the US action was a show of force.
“The US wants to show other Asian countries that it has the power to challenge Chinese claims in the Paracel Islands,” he said.
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Operation of the PLA to expel the U.S. Navy from the South China sea. Details "Bangongshi zone A2/AD" (part 1)
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Modern areas of restriction and prohibition of access and maneuver "A2/ad" — konstruktivnye defensive lines with network-centric appearance. Overview of the baltic "A2/ad barriers"Today, true West, the term "A2/ad", indicating the operational-strategic concept of restriction and prohibition of access and maneuver sea, land and air combat means of the enemy with conventional weapons, are increasingly included in the agenda of the majority of analytical agencies and the military departments of the states of North america and Europe. Partly it survives us. The Pentagon and European command United States and command of the armed forces of NATO in Europe for quite a long time formed a considerable list of areas of "A2/ad" in various conventional theatres of war, an attempt to "Breakthrough" which can turn into the alliance is unacceptable to continue fighting damage.
In the European theater of operations, the list represented the kaliningrad and leningrad regions, the baltic states and the republic of Belarus and the republic of crimea. All these lines are built the most powerful "Anti-aircraft/anti-missile umbrella" of the s-300/400, and overcoming the forces of tactical aviation NATO will lead to huge losses in the tens of strike fighters. Such "A2/ad-barrier" is built directly on the sea area of the baltic conventional theater where surface ships NATO ovms opposed to a few dozen batteries of anti-ship complexes of k-300p "Bastion-p" and 3к60 "Ball", capable of producing ships of the enemy two of the most powerful echelon of several hundred super-maneuverable 2,3-swing 3м55 rcc "Onyx" and subsonic kh-35u uran. With a similar number of "Smart" elements of precision weapons can not cope any known NATO carrier battle group, supported by the best frigates and destroyers, air defense and antimissile defense class "Daring" (type 45), "Sachsen" (project f124) and "Arley burke. " to reflect the "Star plaque" Russian anti-ship missiles, along with launched from tactical fighters 2. 5 and 4-wing anti-radar missile kh-31ad/kh-58, naval groups ovms NATO is simply not enough total target channel multi-function radar that control anti-aircraft missiles sm-2, and paams ("Sylver"), and sm-6. Moreover, the proximity of the baltic coast in the leningrad region offers the opportunity to actively use ground-based signals intelligence/electronic warfare 1л267 "Moscow-1", "Krasuha-4", etc. , capable of high efficiency (aiming and obstruction interference) to suppress the work active radar homing anti-ship missiles "Harpoon" and rbs-15mk3 launched by surface ships of the Russian baltic fleet. Support ground assets, the rap in the open sea impossible, therefore, all tasks of defense shall be exclusively borne by the ship's missile systems and electronic warfare systems.
The proximity of the coastal military infrastructure from friendly ew units in terms of network-centric warfare — the first important advantage of the littoral zone of restriction and prohibition of access and maneuver "A2/ad" in comparison with the same area, far from their own shores. The second major tactical feature of the area "A2/ad" set in the gulf of Finland and Southern baltic sea, is the possibility of using super quiet diesel-electric submarines pr. 877 "Halibut", etc 636. 3 "Varshavyanka" and so forth. 677 "Lada". The level of acoustic stealth of these submarines ahead of even the most modern multi-purpose attack nuclear-powered submarines of the type "Sea wolf", "Pike-b" and so forth.
885 "Yasen". Consequently, they are able to approach the NATO naval strike groups at a distance of couple of tens of kilometers, after which it can be carried out underwater launch anti-ship missiles 3м54э1 "Caliber" or 3м55 "Onyx". The emergence of an entire "Swarm" of Russian ssns in the vicinity of ibm united NATO will be a real surprise to the operators of naval air defense missile system of the enemy. In combat information management systems of surface ships will remain the minimum time for the capture of the missile maintenance, capture and also further the discovery of fire.
In conditions of the open sea/ocean using diesel-electric submarines in the underwater mode will be extremely limited to a small range of stroke and the necessity of surfacing to run the diesel power plant and recharge the batteries. Emersion in the conditions of the alert anti-submarine aircraft p-8a "Poseidon" reconnaissance uav mq-4c "Triton", scanning the water surface for the presence of cuttings and snorkels of our submarines, maybe is a very risky necessity. As you can see, creating a zone of "A2/ad" in the littoral area has a number of advantages. The defensive capabilities of the pla in the South of the operational direction prior to the strengthening of anti-aircraft and anti-submarine "Backbone" in the South China sea. The indispensability of australian territory in the process of creating a bridgehead of the U.S.
Air force for the confrontation with itemanalysis the list of zones "A2/ad" compiled by the Pentagon for the asia-pacific region. They belong exclusively to the people's republic of China. To date, these areas cover almost all the waters of the yellow and east China seas (east China to the territorial waters of taiwan and Japan near the disputed spratly archipelago), included in the "First circuit" of strategically important China borders on the pacific direction. "First chain" is the neighbor 300-500-km border in accordance with the concept of the "Three circuits", described in the white paper of the pla.
Most tactical moments provided by the concept of the "Three chains" for at least another decade and a half will fully reflect the realities of possible sino-us conflict in the asia-pacific region. Meanwhile, put the area chinese area "A2/ad" near the disputed diaoyu islands and spratly islands on the same level with the same strategic "Barriers" of Russia in the baltic and kola operational areas, still very early. Naval forces of the United States, jointly with Japan self-defense forces, doing everything possible to curtail regional ambitions of beijing in the near sea zone "First chain", not to mention the borders of the "Second chain" of "Guam-saipan". Washington, getting comfortable and "Neoprovergaemy" alibi safeguarding pro-american states, asia-pacific and South-east asia "Missile threat" from North Korea and territorial claims of beijing, opened a real carte blanche to large-scale militarization of this unpredictable region. But only one cover the above mentioned us states to keep going.
The main goal of carte blanche is the creation of an advanced military infrastructure impact profile, designed for breakthrough of the main defensive lines of the people's liberation army of China in case of escalation of a regional conflict. To this end, the U.S. Navy regularly enhance the tactical capabilities of the 7th fleet, the main objects of which presents a major naval bases in yokosuka (Japan) and apra (guam). As you can see on the example of North Korea's "Nuclear program", any jump of the degree of tension in the region leads to the arrival in this part of the pacific two or three reinforced carrier strike groups consisting of 3 aircraft carriers class "Nimitz" (in the future will be added "Gerald ford"), 3-6 class cruisers "Ticonderoga" and about 6 um of class "Arleigh burke". Specialists of the U.S.
Department of defense are well aware of all the risks associated with the possible revitalization of the chinese navy and air force in the pacific and off the coast of indoChina, and therefore hedged through technological adaptation australian tyndall air force base under the unlimited deployment of strategic missile-carrying bomber b-1b "Lancer". On these plans has been reported in 2015-2016 on the Western news resources. "Lancers" can be a surgical strike tactical cu long-range agm-158b jassm-er military infrastructure on hainan island, as well as on the entire South coast of China with borders, located above the central part of the South China sea. At the same time, the number of nodes allows pendants to be placed on each b-1b up to 24 cruise missiles of this type, while nodes b-2a "Spirit" is only 16 jassm-er, which makes perfect strategic first strike complex to implement a massive missile and air strike with ultra-low altitudes.
Moreover, despite the "Silence" official sources in the Pentagon and the boeing company, which now maintains and upgrades the data "Strategy", they will also be able to apply for a "Decapitation" protocoalele operations against the chinese ship and aircraft carrier strike groups, where the "One caliber" will be long-range stealth asm agm-158c lrasm, developed based on the jassm-er. So, 20 "Lancers" are carriers of 480 discreet rcc lrasm or cu jassm-er, which would be a very compelling argument, even considering the presence of the chinese navy advanced em uro the type 52d equipped with bius h/zbj-1 and multi-channel naval sam hhq-9. No less significant detail is as earlier announced plans to transfer all the same avb tyndall strategic air tankers kc-10a "Extender". Now this information is almost all forgotten, but the fact remains. The transfer of the largest air tankers, the U.S.
Air force in this region is necessary to Washington as the air, because the combat radius of strategic bombers b-1b lancer is 5000 km, which will only reach the borders of the launch of cruise missiles jassm-er/lrasm, implement it and then to return immediately to the airbase tyndall, while the operational-strategic situation may require prolonged loitering bombers over the philippine and South China seas in anticipation of any action by the chinese navy. The fact that in addition to stan.
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MOD spokesman Colonel Ren Guoqiang takes media questions at a routine press briefing on May 25, 2017. [Photo by Chen Boyuan/China.org.cn]
Chinese navy missile frigates identified and expelled a U.S. destroyer entering the South China Sea on May 25, the Ministry of National Defense (MOD) confirmed the same day.
MOD spokesman Colonel Ren Guoqiang told a routine press briefing that the USS Dewey entered waters adjacent to the Meiji Reef, prompting the PLA Navy missile frigates CNS Liuzhou and CNS Luzhou to identify and warn it to leave the area.
Col. Ren's remark was in response to the request to confirm media reports claiming that the USS Dewey was "within the 12-nautical mile zone of the Meiji Reef" on a so-called "freedom of navigation" mission.
He reaffirmed that China has "indisputable sovereignty" over the Nansha Islands and waters surrounding them. "The Chinese military lodged solemn representations with the United States against such acts of flaunting its forces and boosting regional militarization."
The MOD spokesman stressed that the United States is a destabilizing factor especially when the situation in the South China Sea was being ameliorated as a result of the joint efforts by China and ASEAN countries.
He said a healthy and stable military-to-military relationship was in the common interests of China and the United States whereas "erroneous acts by the U.S. military will only prompt the Chinese military to strengthen its capacity in order to safeguard the country's sovereignty and security."
Earlier this month, the MOD accused the United States of conducting close-in reconnaissance in the airspace over the Yellow Sea. MOD spokesman Senior Colonel Wu Qian said such spying activities of U.S. military aircraft and vessels were the "fundamental causes" of problems in security issues between the two countries.
Meanwhile, Ren rebuffed Japanese media's allegation that China was deploying HQ-9 air defense missiles in the southern province of Hainan and was about to mark off a no-fly zone in the South China Sea.
He said that deploying weapons in Hainan was China's own business within the scope of its sovereignty.
"As for the so-called 'no-fly zone,' it is a complete fabrication by the Japanese media. I am astonished by how far the fabrication has gone."
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PLA garrison ‘warns off’ US Navy destroyer sailing close to island in disputed area of South China Sea
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 30 January, 2016, 7:25pm
UPDATED : Sunday, 31 January, 2016, 12:25am
Comments: 68
Reuters
China’s defence ministry said on Saturday that a PLA garrison on an island in a disputed area of the South China Sea had taken action to warn off and repel a US Navy destroyer that had entered its territorial waters.
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Defence ministry spokesperson Yang Yujun said in a statement that China strongly opposed the “provocative move” by the United States.The Pentagon had earlier said that the USS Curtis Wilbur had sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island in the South China Sea on Saturday.
A Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davies said the aim of the patrol was to challenge efforts to restrict freedom of navigation in the area.
“This operation challenged attempts by the three claimants - [mainland] China, Taiwan and Vietnam - to restrict navigation rights and freedoms,” he said.
Davis said no ships from China’s military were in the area when the US warship carried out its patrol in the Paracel islands on Saturday.
However, Yang said the PLA garrison on the island had given warnings and taken action to expel the US warship. He did not give details of what kind of action was taken.
READ MORE: Warships sent, US ambassador called in as China bolsters Navy presence in disputed Spratly islands, after US sail-by rattles Beijing’s sovereignty claims
The island is known as Zhongjian Dao in Chinese. It has been controlled by the PLA since 1974 after a naval conflict with Vietnam.
It is the first time the US Navy has challenged China’s territorial claims in the Paracel islands.
A US warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of Mischief and Subi reefs in the Spatly Islands in another disputed area of the South China Sea in October last year.
The patrol incensed China’s government, which described the action as a dangerous provocation.
Pentagon spokesman Davis said the latest operation sought to challenge policies that require prior permission or notification of transit within territorial waters.
“No claimants were notified prior to the transit, which is consistent with our normal process and international law,” he said.
A spokeswoman for China’s foreign ministry, Hua Chunying, said the US warship had acted illegally in entering Chinese waters, state television reported.
She urged the US to respect China’s laws and do more to help maintain regional peace and stability.
China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than US$5 trillion of world trade is shipped every year.
Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan have rival claims.
China has been rapidly developing man-made islands in the region, including building runways, increasing tensions among its neighbours.
READ MORE: China’s neighbours wary of taking sides in Sino-US South China Sea dispute
Li Jie, a Beijing-based naval expert, said the US operation was a direct challenge to China’s claims of sovereignty in the disputed waters.
“The US is trying to test the bottom line of China in the South China Sea issue,” Li said.
He described it as an “unfriendly move” that might challenge relations between the two countries.
Ni Lexiong, a Shanghai-based naval expert, said the US action was a show of force.
“The US wants to show other Asian countries that it has the power to challenge Chinese claims in the Paracel Islands,” he said.
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Modern areas of restriction and prohibition of access and maneuver "A2/ad" — konstruktivnye defensive lines with network-centric appearance. Overview of the baltic "A2/ad barriers"Today, true West, the term "A2/ad", indicating the operational-strategic concept of restriction and prohibition of access and maneuver sea, land and air combat means of the enemy with conventional weapons, are increasingly included in the agenda of the majority of analytical agencies and the military departments of the states of North america and Europe. Partly it survives us. The Pentagon and European command United States and command of the armed forces of NATO in Europe for quite a long time formed a considerable list of areas of "A2/ad" in various conventional theatres of war, an attempt to "Breakthrough" which can turn into the alliance is unacceptable to continue fighting damage.
In the European theater of operations, the list represented the kaliningrad and leningrad regions, the baltic states and the republic of Belarus and the republic of crimea. All these lines are built the most powerful "Anti-aircraft/anti-missile umbrella" of the s-300/400, and overcoming the forces of tactical aviation NATO will lead to huge losses in the tens of strike fighters. Such "A2/ad-barrier" is built directly on the sea area of the baltic conventional theater where surface ships NATO ovms opposed to a few dozen batteries of anti-ship complexes of k-300p "Bastion-p" and 3к60 "Ball", capable of producing ships of the enemy two of the most powerful echelon of several hundred super-maneuverable 2,3-swing 3м55 rcc "Onyx" and subsonic kh-35u uran. With a similar number of "Smart" elements of precision weapons can not cope any known NATO carrier battle group, supported by the best frigates and destroyers, air defense and antimissile defense class "Daring" (type 45), "Sachsen" (project f124) and "Arley burke. " to reflect the "Star plaque" Russian anti-ship missiles, along with launched from tactical fighters 2. 5 and 4-wing anti-radar missile kh-31ad/kh-58, naval groups ovms NATO is simply not enough total target channel multi-function radar that control anti-aircraft missiles sm-2, and paams ("Sylver"), and sm-6. Moreover, the proximity of the baltic coast in the leningrad region offers the opportunity to actively use ground-based signals intelligence/electronic warfare 1л267 "Moscow-1", "Krasuha-4", etc. , capable of high efficiency (aiming and obstruction interference) to suppress the work active radar homing anti-ship missiles "Harpoon" and rbs-15mk3 launched by surface ships of the Russian baltic fleet. Support ground assets, the rap in the open sea impossible, therefore, all tasks of defense shall be exclusively borne by the ship's missile systems and electronic warfare systems.
The proximity of the coastal military infrastructure from friendly ew units in terms of network-centric warfare — the first important advantage of the littoral zone of restriction and prohibition of access and maneuver "A2/ad" in comparison with the same area, far from their own shores. The second major tactical feature of the area "A2/ad" set in the gulf of Finland and Southern baltic sea, is the possibility of using super quiet diesel-electric submarines pr. 877 "Halibut", etc 636. 3 "Varshavyanka" and so forth. 677 "Lada". The level of acoustic stealth of these submarines ahead of even the most modern multi-purpose attack nuclear-powered submarines of the type "Sea wolf", "Pike-b" and so forth.
885 "Yasen". Consequently, they are able to approach the NATO naval strike groups at a distance of couple of tens of kilometers, after which it can be carried out underwater launch anti-ship missiles 3м54э1 "Caliber" or 3м55 "Onyx". The emergence of an entire "Swarm" of Russian ssns in the vicinity of ibm united NATO will be a real surprise to the operators of naval air defense missile system of the enemy. In combat information management systems of surface ships will remain the minimum time for the capture of the missile maintenance, capture and also further the discovery of fire.
In conditions of the open sea/ocean using diesel-electric submarines in the underwater mode will be extremely limited to a small range of stroke and the necessity of surfacing to run the diesel power plant and recharge the batteries. Emersion in the conditions of the alert anti-submarine aircraft p-8a "Poseidon" reconnaissance uav mq-4c "Triton", scanning the water surface for the presence of cuttings and snorkels of our submarines, maybe is a very risky necessity. As you can see, creating a zone of "A2/ad" in the littoral area has a number of advantages. The defensive capabilities of the pla in the South of the operational direction prior to the strengthening of anti-aircraft and anti-submarine "Backbone" in the South China sea. The indispensability of australian territory in the process of creating a bridgehead of the U.S.
Air force for the confrontation with itemanalysis the list of zones "A2/ad" compiled by the Pentagon for the asia-pacific region. They belong exclusively to the people's republic of China. To date, these areas cover almost all the waters of the yellow and east China seas (east China to the territorial waters of taiwan and Japan near the disputed spratly archipelago), included in the "First circuit" of strategically important China borders on the pacific direction. "First chain" is the neighbor 300-500-km border in accordance with the concept of the "Three circuits", described in the white paper of the pla.
Most tactical moments provided by the concept of the "Three chains" for at least another decade and a half will fully reflect the realities of possible sino-us conflict in the asia-pacific region. Meanwhile, put the area chinese area "A2/ad" near the disputed diaoyu islands and spratly islands on the same level with the same strategic "Barriers" of Russia in the baltic and kola operational areas, still very early. Naval forces of the United States, jointly with Japan self-defense forces, doing everything possible to curtail regional ambitions of beijing in the near sea zone "First chain", not to mention the borders of the "Second chain" of "Guam-saipan". Washington, getting comfortable and "Neoprovergaemy" alibi safeguarding pro-american states, asia-pacific and South-east asia "Missile threat" from North Korea and territorial claims of beijing, opened a real carte blanche to large-scale militarization of this unpredictable region. But only one cover the above mentioned us states to keep going.
The main goal of carte blanche is the creation of an advanced military infrastructure impact profile, designed for breakthrough of the main defensive lines of the people's liberation army of China in case of escalation of a regional conflict. To this end, the U.S. Navy regularly enhance the tactical capabilities of the 7th fleet, the main objects of which presents a major naval bases in yokosuka (Japan) and apra (guam). As you can see on the example of North Korea's "Nuclear program", any jump of the degree of tension in the region leads to the arrival in this part of the pacific two or three reinforced carrier strike groups consisting of 3 aircraft carriers class "Nimitz" (in the future will be added "Gerald ford"), 3-6 class cruisers "Ticonderoga" and about 6 um of class "Arleigh burke". Specialists of the U.S.
Department of defense are well aware of all the risks associated with the possible revitalization of the chinese navy and air force in the pacific and off the coast of indoChina, and therefore hedged through technological adaptation australian tyndall air force base under the unlimited deployment of strategic missile-carrying bomber b-1b "Lancer". On these plans has been reported in 2015-2016 on the Western news resources. "Lancers" can be a surgical strike tactical cu long-range agm-158b jassm-er military infrastructure on hainan island, as well as on the entire South coast of China with borders, located above the central part of the South China sea. At the same time, the number of nodes allows pendants to be placed on each b-1b up to 24 cruise missiles of this type, while nodes b-2a "Spirit" is only 16 jassm-er, which makes perfect strategic first strike complex to implement a massive missile and air strike with ultra-low altitudes.
Moreover, despite the "Silence" official sources in the Pentagon and the boeing company, which now maintains and upgrades the data "Strategy", they will also be able to apply for a "Decapitation" protocoalele operations against the chinese ship and aircraft carrier strike groups, where the "One caliber" will be long-range stealth asm agm-158c lrasm, developed based on the jassm-er. So, 20 "Lancers" are carriers of 480 discreet rcc lrasm or cu jassm-er, which would be a very compelling argument, even considering the presence of the chinese navy advanced em uro the type 52d equipped with bius h/zbj-1 and multi-channel naval sam hhq-9. No less significant detail is as earlier announced plans to transfer all the same avb tyndall strategic air tankers kc-10a "Extender". Now this information is almost all forgotten, but the fact remains. The transfer of the largest air tankers, the U.S.
Air force in this region is necessary to Washington as the air, because the combat radius of strategic bombers b-1b lancer is 5000 km, which will only reach the borders of the launch of cruise missiles jassm-er/lrasm, implement it and then to return immediately to the airbase tyndall, while the operational-strategic situation may require prolonged loitering bombers over the philippine and South China seas in anticipation of any action by the chinese navy. The fact that in addition to stan.
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PLA Navy expels US destroyer in S. China Sea
By Chen Boyuan
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MOD spokesman Colonel Ren Guoqiang takes media questions at a routine press briefing on May 25, 2017. [Photo by Chen Boyuan/China.org.cn]
Chinese navy missile frigates identified and expelled a U.S. destroyer entering the South China Sea on May 25, the Ministry of National Defense (MOD) confirmed the same day.
MOD spokesman Colonel Ren Guoqiang told a routine press briefing that the USS Dewey entered waters adjacent to the Meiji Reef, prompting the PLA Navy missile frigates CNS Liuzhou and CNS Luzhou to identify and warn it to leave the area.
Col. Ren's remark was in response to the request to confirm media reports claiming that the USS Dewey was "within the 12-nautical mile zone of the Meiji Reef" on a so-called "freedom of navigation" mission.
He reaffirmed that China has "indisputable sovereignty" over the Nansha Islands and waters surrounding them. "The Chinese military lodged solemn representations with the United States against such acts of flaunting its forces and boosting regional militarization."
The MOD spokesman stressed that the United States is a destabilizing factor especially when the situation in the South China Sea was being ameliorated as a result of the joint efforts by China and ASEAN countries.
He said a healthy and stable military-to-military relationship was in the common interests of China and the United States whereas "erroneous acts by the U.S. military will only prompt the Chinese military to strengthen its capacity in order to safeguard the country's sovereignty and security."
Earlier this month, the MOD accused the United States of conducting close-in reconnaissance in the airspace over the Yellow Sea. MOD spokesman Senior Colonel Wu Qian said such spying activities of U.S. military aircraft and vessels were the "fundamental causes" of problems in security issues between the two countries.
Meanwhile, Ren rebuffed Japanese media's allegation that China was deploying HQ-9 air defense missiles in the southern province of Hainan and was about to mark off a no-fly zone in the South China Sea.
He said that deploying weapons in Hainan was China's own business within the scope of its sovereignty.
"As for the so-called 'no-fly zone,' it is a complete fabrication by the Japanese media. I am astonished by how far the fabrication has gone."
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