Thursday the US Navy he said that an American nuclear-powered submarine had an accident in the international waters of the South China Sea, an area at the center of many territorial disputes between China and other countries. In the incident, which took place five days ago and reported yesterday for safety reasons, eleven sailors were injured (none of them seriously). However, the submarine is in good condition and members of the navy said the engine (powered by a nuclear reactor) was fortunately not damaged.
The US Navy said the submarine – the USS Connecticut, built during the Cold War – collided with an object whose extent is not yet known but which is not, according to the US Navy, another submarine. could be a sunken ship).
The incident occurred in an area at the center of tensions between the United States and China: in recent days the United States and the United Kingdom had conducted military exercises with Japan, Canada, the Netherlands and New Zealand, and China. had sent a few dozen military aircraft in the sky above Taiwan, as a provocation. US officials interviewed anonymously by Reuters and from Wall Street Journal they also said that for a year the United States has been training the Taiwanese army for at least a year, in the event of an attack by China.
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