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The suggestion was delivered The Global Times, media belonging to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, in an editorial.
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According to the state-funded newspaper, Beijing must take action and create the capability to conduct reconnaissance operations in the waters, which are considered territorial territory of the US and its allies under international law.
“Only by getting the US to taste its own medicine can we touch the nerves of the US and its allies, and reshape the Western world’s understanding of US intimidation in the South China Sea…US will surely see the PLA show [Tentara Pembebasan Rakyat] on his doorstep in the not too distant future,” reads the editorial The Global Times, Thursday (9/9/2021).
The editorial alluded to a recent incident involving the US guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold, which sailed just 12 nautical miles from Meiji Reef, one of the artificial islands that Beijing has set up in the disputed waters of the South China Sea and which is home to military equipment. China.
The US aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson, and its fighter group are also present separately in the South China Sea for combat exercises.
Beijing has long insisted that its military equipment fulfills a purely defensive role, but Washington claims that China is restricting access to the South China Sea with its actions, and thus justifies sending American warships on so-called “freedom of navigation” operations in the region.
China’s military said it had deployed several fighter jets and sent a Navy ship to expel the USS Benfold from waters that Beijing considers its territory.
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