Chinese military ‘warns off' US destroyer from vicinity of Scarborough Shoal
The People's Liberation Army's Southern Theatre Command said on Wednesday that the USS Higgins, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, had 'illegally entered China's territorial waters around Huangyan Island [another name for Scarborough Shoal] without the approval of the Chinese government'.
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