US Navy Conducts Mission in Contested South China Sea
The guided-missile destroyer USS Milius conducted a freedom of navigation operation in the Spratly Islands to uphold the “lawful uses of the sea.”
KOMPAS.com \- A US warship sailed near a chain of islands Monday, April 10, claimed by China, the Philippines, as well as other nations and Taiwan, while China held its third day of military exercises around self-governed Taiwan. The US Navy said the guided-missile destroyer USS Milius conducted a freedom of navigation operation near Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands, a group of dozens of islands between Vietnam and the Philippines, to uphold the “lawful uses of the sea.” “USS Milius demonstrated that Mischief Reef, a low-tide elevation in it its natural state, is not entitled to a territor...