Chinese military ‘warns off' US destroyer from South China Sea's Scarborough Shoal
South China Sea , less than two days after an apparent
collision involving a Chinese coastguard vessel and a PLA Navy ship while the former was pursuing a Philippine coastguard vessel in the area.
The
People's Liberation Army's Southern Theatre Command said on Wednesday that the USS Higgins destroyer, type DDG-76, had 'illegally entered China's territorial waters around Huangyan Island without the approval of the Chinese government'.
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Chinese ships collide during clash with Philippine coastguard in contested South China Sea
Chinese ships collide during clash with Philippine coastguard in contested South China Sea
The PLA Navy 'has tracked, monitored, and warned the vessel to leave', the Southern Theatre Command said in a statement.
It also criticised the US military for 'seriously violating China's sovereignty and security, undermining peace and stability in the South China Sea, and violating international law and basic norms of international relations'.
The US destroyer entered the disputed waters near Scarborough Shoal, known as Bajo de Masinloc in the Philippines or Huangyan Island in China, where the collision on Monday is said to have occurred.
Manila claimed that a Chinese coastguard vessel sustained severe damage to its bow after colliding with a larger PLA ship the Guilin, a Type 052D guided-missile destroyer, while chasing a Philippine coastguard ship.
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