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Tensions Simmer in the South China Sea

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Posted: May 6th, 2016

China sent a major signal to the U.S. last week, when it turned away the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier and accompanying vessels from making a routine port call in Hong Kong – the first time in nearly a decade that China has refused entry to an American military ship. The message to the U.S. was in essence, “this is our turf and we’re in charge.”     

The denial of port entry comes just two weeks after Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter criticized China’s military build up in the South China Sea while onboard  the Stennis near Scarborough Shoal.  Carter was accompanied by Voltaire Gazmin, the Philippines defense minister.  

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