{"id":206468,"date":"2020-04-29T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206468"},"modified":"2020-05-02T07:13:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T07:13:22","slug":"chinese-military-expels-uss-barry-from-paracel-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206468","title":{"rendered":"Chinese military expels USS Barry from Paracel Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christen McGurdy \u2013 UPI April 28, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
\"\"<\/a>

USS Barry. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Chinese authorities say they sortied ships and aircraft to “track, monitor, verify, identify and expel” the guided-missile destroyer USS Barry from the Paracel Island chain in the South China Sea on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The People’s Liberation Army’s Southern Theatre Command accused the USS Barry of intruding into “waters around the Paracel Islands without permission,” the South China Morning Post<\/strong><\/span><\/a> reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

Navy officials told USNI News, however, that the Barry had conducted a “freedom of navigation operation” in the island chain off Vietnam.<\/span><\/p>\n

The vessel had transited<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the Taiwan Strait twice earlier this month, provoking a similar reaction from China. The Chinese Liaoning Carrier Strike Group also transited the Taiwan Strait April 22, a day after Barry transited the same area.<\/span><\/p>\n

PLA Southern Theatre Command spokesman Li Huamin said the operation was “incompatible with the current atmosphere as the international community is fighting pandemic.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States and China have each accused the other of using the COVID-19<\/strong><\/span><\/a> pandemic as a distraction to exercise more military control in the South China Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Barry has been active in the South China Sea operating with the guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill and the amphibious assault ship USS America off the coast of Malaysia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chinese Navy ships and aircraft force U.S. Navy warship to leave disputed waters around the Paracel Islands <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206471,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206468\/revisions\/206471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}