BEIJING (Bloomberg): China’s armed forces accused the US of 'ill intentions in the South China Sea after an American warship entered waters near the contested Spratly Islands last week.
"The US ship’s deliberate provocation during the traditional lunar Chinese New Year festival, which harboured ill intentions, is a naked act of navigational hegemony, ” Senior Colonel Li Huamin, spokesman for the People’s Liberation Army’s southern command, said in a statement on Tuesday (Jan 28).
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