US warship’s passage near disputed Paracel Islands illegal

Accoding to China, a US warship had illegally entered its territorial waters in the South China Sea, an assertion the United States denied. A United States Navy warship USS Curtis Wilbur sailed near disputed Beijing-controlled islands in the South China Sea.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021

The Paracel Islands archipelago is a collection of 130 islands and coral reefs and is located in the South China Sea, almost equidistant from China and Vietnam.

Since 2012, China, Taiwan and Vietnam have attempted to reinforce their claims on the territory by engaging in construction of government administrative buildings, tourism, land reclamation initiatives and by establishing and expanding military presence on the archipelago.