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Spratly Islands

By AFP
December 23, 2020

WASHINGTON: An American warship sailed through waters off the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea on Thursday, in the latest challenge to Beijing’s sweeping territorial claims in the region. Guided-missile destroyer USS John S McCain "asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the Spratly Islands," the US Seventh fleet said in a statement on Tuesday.