Two recent encounters between a Navy guided missile destroyer and two People's Liberation Army warships in the South China Sea were safe, legal, and not provocative, according to a statement from the Navy's Pacific Fleet that seeks to rebut accusations from Chinese defense officials.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson conducts routine underway operations in the Taiwan Strait, on Sept. 9, 2023. Two recent encounters between a Navy guided missile destroyer and two People’s Liberation Army warships in the South China Sea were safe, legal, and not provocative, according to a statement from the Navy’s Pacific Fleet that seeks to rebut accusations from Chinese defense officials.
But a review of the video, U.S. officials said, shows the American destroyer sailed a safe distance in front of the Guilin and passed about a mile away from the Huangshan. “The video released by the PRC only shows cropped segments of a 90-minute interaction between multiple ships and USS Ralph Johnson,” the statement said.
David Stilwell, a former assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs, said the Pacific Fleet rebuttal was a welcome change from past U.S. military passivity toward Chinese propaganda. Col. Wu made the comments during a ministry press conference when asked about recent Pentagon criticism of dangerous PLA aerial intercepts of U.S. and allied aircraft.
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