U.S. rebuffs Chinese threats, says freedom of navigation in S. China Sea is right of ‘all nations’
Special to WorldTribune.com The United States is planning more “freedom of navigation” missions in the South China Sea, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said. “We will fly, sail and operate wherever international law permits,” Carter told a congressional hearing earlier this week. The USS Lassen, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed near one of China’s artificial islands […]