U.S. Navy challenges China’s claim to strategic sea lanes near militarized Mischief Reef
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Geostrategy-Direct Ignoring China’s warnings, a U.S. Navy warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of a Chinese artificial island in the South China Sea, U.S. officials said on May 24. (more…)