Beijing: The Chinese army said Thursday, April 24, that it had sent naval and air forces to monitor and warn a guided destructive of the United States which sailed in the sensitive Strait of Taiwan.
The American navy, sometimes accompanied by ships from allied countries, transit the strait about once a month. China, which claims that Taiwan is its own territory, says that the strategic navigable way belongs to it.
China has held its last series of war games Around Taiwan earlier this monthTaking the condemnation of Taipei and concern of the United States and its allies.
The command of the Oriental theater of the Chinese Popular Liberation Army appointed the ship as the destructive of guided missiles Uss William P Lawrence and said that it had passed on Wednesday in the Strait in an act of “public mupe”.
“The relevant remarks of the United States have reversed good and evil, the distorted legal principles, confused the public and misleaded international perception,” said command in a press release, without specifying the comments it was referring.
“We tell the United States to stop their distortions and blows and work together to maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.”
