Navy has four ships patrolling South China Sea
WIB sea May 21, 2019 William Cole 0
William Cole
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser
The Pearl Harbor destroyer USS Preble on Monday conducted its third “freedom of navigation†operation in the South China Sea since February in what so far has been four such Navy challenges to China’s claims this year.
The pace is far ahead of last year’s operations — five — with the Defense Department expected to announce details of a new Indo-Pacific strategy at the end of the month.
The Navy also took the unusual step of revealing that the Pearl Harbor-based submarine USS Hawaii was in the Indian Ocean last week as part of an exercise involving a French aircraft carrier and its escort ships.
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