marine corps: The Chinese claim would block innocent passage by other countries' ships and is not permitted by international law, a U.S. 7th Fleet spokeswoman, Cmdr, according to The Japan Times. Reann Mommsen, said. On Friday an American warship approached the Paracel Islands, an island chain claimed by Beijing in the South China Sea, to affirm international freedom of navigation in the region. ; The USS Wayne E. Meyer, a guided-missile destroyer, passed near the islands to contest Beijing's sweeping claims to the seas around the archipelago, which is also claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam. Friday's was the sixth freedom of navigation operation or FONOPS in naval jargon this year, a clear acceleration in pace. On Wednesday, the U.S. Marine Corps announced it had conducted exercises on the Japanese islet of Iejima, hundreds of miles south of Tokyo, to practice landings on hostile shores and the seizure of landing strips. There were a total of eight in 2017 and 2018, and only six during the entire Obama presidency.
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