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Reuters, 26/02 19:22 CET
By Idrees Ali
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – (This
February 24, 2016 story was refiled to remove the reference to the Navy
in the second paragraph to make clear Pacific Command is not a Navy
component).
The United States, which is worried by China’s military
buildup to assert dominance in the South China Sea, will increase
freedom-of-navigation operations there, a senior Pentagon official said
on Wednesday.
“We will be doing them more, and we’ll be doing them with
greater complexity in the future and … we’ll fly, sail and operate
wherever international law allows,” Admiral Harry Harris, head of the
U.S. Pacific Command, told a hearing of the House of Representatives
Armed Services Committee.
“We must continue to operate in the South China Sea to
demonstrate that water space and the air above it is international,”
Harris said.
On Tuesday, Harris said in comments coinciding with a
visit to Washington by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi that China was
“changing the operational landscape” in the South China Sea by deploying
missiles and radar as part of an effort to militarily dominate East
Asia.
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Source: Euronews
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