China has said that it lodged stern representations with the United States over what it claimed was a recent incursion by a US Navy (USN) destroyer into Chinese territorial waters near the Paracel Islands in the disputed South China Sea (SCS). The Ministry of National Defense (MND) in Beijing said in a statement that USS Chaffee, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, entered the territorial waters of the Chinese-claimed Paracel Islands on 10 October without notifying the Chinese authorities.
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