BEIJING — China's military will take "all necessary" measures in response to any future U.S. Navy incursions into
what it considers its territorial waters around islands in the South
China Sea, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
The statement by Col. Yang Yujun followed the
sailing of a U.S. guided-missile destroyer within the 12-nautical mile
(13.8-mile) territorial limit of one of the islands newly created by China
in the strategically vital region. The U.S. refuses to recognize the
man-made islets as deserving of sovereign territory status.
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