After a US guided-missile destroyer sailed through the waters in less than a week where Beijing asserted sovereignty, Chinese Navy is set to hold drills near the disputed islands in West Philippine Sea.
The announcement are quite routine in the disputed waters, comes less than a week after USS Decatur conducted a “freedom of navigation” sail-by near the disputed Spratly or Paracel Islands, through which some $5 billion dollars’ worth of trade passes through each year.
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