China’s Maneuver in Open Waters of Taiwan Strait ‘Unsafe,’ Violates International Law: US Indo-Pacific Command

The Chinese military’s latest aggression, this time against a U.S. warship in international waters in the Taiwan Strait, was “unsafe,” the U.S. military said following a potentially dangerous interaction on June 3.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon, accompanied by the Royal Canadian Navy’s Halifax-class frigate HMCS Montreal, was performing “a routine south-to-north Taiwan Strait transit” on June 3 “in accordance with international law,” U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) said in a statement.
However, the People’s Liberation Army-Navy’s Luyang III DDG 132, a guided-missile destroyer, “overtook Chung-Hoon on their port side and crossed their bow at 150 yards,” the command said, forcing the U.S. guided-missile destroyer to slow to 10 knots to “avoid a collision.”…}