Recent US deployment to contested waterway likely has Chinese strategic planners thinking: ‘So that’s all you’ve got?’
Nations, like sports teams, don’t always recognize when they might get knocked off their perch.
The USS America, a new amphibious assault ship, is now patrolling in the South China Sea with another US cruiser, a US destroyer and an Australian destroyer.
They are operating near where a Chinese research vessel backed by Chinese Coast Guard ships is in a standoff with Malaysian ships. The Malaysians object to the Chinese being inside their Exclusive Economic Zone, which China claims as its own, along with most of the South China Sea.
Rear Admiral Fred Kacher, commander of the America Expeditionary Strike Group,stated: “To bring this much combat capability together here in the South China Sea truly signals to our allies and partners in the region that we are deeply committed to a free and open Indo-Pacific.”….more here
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