Both Japan and China lay claim to islands in the East China Sea and have scrambled aircraft in recent months over the disputed seas and conducted naval patrols.
Heightened tensions over China’s military assertiveness have raised concerns that an minor incident in disputed maritime waters, the South China Sea and East China Sea, could quickly escalate. Gardner's Fenway palace when the news of the great sea horror reached Boston. The near miss was the most significant U.S.-China maritime incident in the South China Sea since 2009, said security expert Carl Thayer at the Australian Defence Force Academy. 170+ Dystopian Novels, Space Adventures, Lost World Classics & Apocalyptic. and Chinese crews, and both vessels maneuvered to ensure safe passage,” said the defence official. “Eventually, effective bridge-to-bridge communications occurred between the U.S. defence official said.Īnother Chinese warship maneuvered near the Cowpens in the incident on December 5, and the Cowpens was forced to take evasive action to avoid a collision, the Pacific Fleet said in its statement. The incident came as the USS Cowpens was operating near China’s only aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, and at a time of heightened tensions in the region following Beijing’s declaration of an Air Defense Identification Zone farther north in the East China Sea, a U.S. The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63) fires Standard Missiles (SM) 2 missiles at an airborne drone during a live-fire weapons shoot in the Pacific Ocean in this handout photo taken Septemand released to Reuters on September 25, 2012.
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