A US Navy warship on Saturday challenged Chinese claims to disputed islands in the South China Sea, the US 7th Fleet said in a statement - the second operation of its kind this week.The guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold sailed near the Spratly Islands - known as the Nansha Islands in China - in the southeastern South China Sea in a so-called "freedom of navigation operation" (FONOP), the 7th Fleet statement said.The US Navy operation in the island chain where China has built military fortifications on man-made islands challenged "restrictions on innocent passage imposed by the People's Republic of China (PRC), Vietnam, and Taiwan," the statement said.
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