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China, US in war of words over South China Sea navigation

The Combat Information Centre inside the US guided-missile destroyer USS Milius in 2018 [File: Issei Kato/Reuters]

China’s defence ministry has said that it had – for a second time – monitored and driven away the US Navy guided missile destroyer USS Milius after it entered what Beijing claims as its territorial waters in the South China Sea near the Paracel Islands.

Friday marked the second straight day of a standoff – and heated words – between the two superpowers amid growing tensions in the South China Sea.

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