Beijing protests US Navy patrol through South China Sea
By: Christopher Bodeen, The Associated Press, May 25, 2017
BEIJING — China protested a U.S. Navy patrol that sent a guided-missile destroyer near a group of man-made islands in the South China Sea on Thursday, in the first American challenge to Beijing's claims to the waters since President Trump took office.
China's Defense Ministry told reporters that it had sought an explanation with U.S. officials over the incident, which Beijing said involved the USS Dewey and took place around Mischief Reef, one of a chain of artificial islands China has built and fortified to assert its claims over the strategic waterway.
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