Tensions rise as US and Chinese warships narrowly avoid collision.
The US military released a video showing a Chinese navy ship cutting across the path of USS Chung-Hoon and Canada’s HMCS Montreal in the Taiwan Strait, forcing the American destroyer to slow to avoid collision. The Chinese vessel came within 150 yards of the US and Canadian ships during a routine freedom-of-navigation exercise. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and maintains the Taiwan Strait is part of its economic zone. The near miss in the Taiwan Strait came two weeks after what US officials called an “unnecessarily aggressive” encounter between Chinese and American military aircraft over the South China Sea.
