News Story: China deploys Escort Vessel, Destroyer to warn off US Warship

USS Decatur (Image: Wiki Commons)

Two Chinese naval vessels warned off a US ship after it entered “Chinese territorial waters” near the Paracel Islands, known as Xisha in Chinese, the Defence Ministry said in a statement on its website late on Friday.

The ministry said a Chinese navy escort vessel and a guided-missile destroyer were deployed to warn off the US ship after it was “spotted and verified” from the Paracel Island, which Beijing refers to as Xisha in Chinese.

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