US releases video showing close-call in Taiwan Strait with Chinese destroyer
Source: AP
By DAVID RISING today
BANGKOK (AP) The United States military released video Monday of what it called an unsafe Chinese maneuver in the Taiwan Strait on the weekend, in which a Chinese navy ship cut sharply across the path of an American destroyer, forcing the U.S. vessel to slow to avoid a collision.
The incident occurred Saturday as the American destroyer USS Chung-Hoon and Canadian frigate HMCS Montreal were conducting a so-called freedom of navigation transit of the strait between Taiwan and mainland China.
China claims the democratic self-governing island of Taiwan as part of its own territory, and maintains the strait is part of its exclusive economic zone, while the U.S. and its allies regularly sail through and fly over the passage to emphasize their contention that the waters are international.
During the Saturday transit, the Chinese guided-missile destroyer overtook the Chung-Hoon on its port side, then veered across its bow at a distance of some 150 yards (137 meters), according to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. The American destroyer held its course, but reduced speed to 10 knots to avoid a collision, the military said.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/us-china-taiwan-strait-489a45bb6df134fa09443d285b3f8669
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captain queeg
(10,035 posts)INdemo
(6,994 posts)(USS Independence) I was on while we were launching Aircraft in the Mediterranean Sea
captain queeg
(10,035 posts)Maybe with catapults its not as important. I also remember Russian trawlers fishing off the coast of the UK violating their territorial waters.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)That was the idea, they wanted to disrupt our launches. Im sure 40 years later the Navy would handle this situation quite differently
Ray Bruns
(4,023 posts)that with 45k tons of steel bearing down on them.
captain queeg
(10,035 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,023 posts)mitch96
(13,817 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,023 posts)150 yards is too close for comfort.