has branded Washington a 'security risk' and claimed its military had 'driven away' a US destroyer after it sailed near the disputed Paracel Islands in the South Sea.The United States regularly carries out what it calls Freedom of Navigation Operations in the South China Sea challenging what it says are restrictions on innocent passage imposed by China and other claimants.The U.S. Navy said the guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold 'asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the South China Sea near the Paracel Islands, consistent with international law'.
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