A US Navy warship has sailed near disputed Beijing-controlled islands in the South China Sea - just hours after US President Joe Biden said the US must protect open access to the waterway.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur performed what the US Navy calls a "freedom of navigation" operation near the Paracel Islands, asserting "navigational rights and freedoms... consistent with international law," Lieutenant Nicholas Lingo, spokesperson for the US Seventh Fleet, said in a statement.
China calls the Paracels, in the north-western portion of the South China Sea, the Xisha Islands.
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