Beijing’s South China Sea ambitions prompt big response from world powers

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Beijing’s South China Sea ambitions prompt big response from world powers
Reuters

Built to hunt Russian submarines, Canadian frigate HMCS Calgary is instead chasing Japanese and US subs in western Pacific drills as Canada joins other maritime nations in seeking to contain Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific region.

“The expectation is to see one, if not two ships, on a year-round basis doing a variety of things with a variety of partners in the region,” Commander Blair Saltel, the captain of Calgary, said in Yokosuka, Japan.
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His ship, docked at the naval base near Tokyo along with Canadian navy supply ship the Asterix, left Canada in July on a mission that has taken it through the East China Sea, to Australia and into the contested South China Sea, where it encountered Chinese warships.

Continued at: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2172254/south-china-sea-canada-sends-warship-join-international-forces

Those feisty Canadians.