U.S. to continue navigation operation in South China Sea: Carter

From the Philippine News Agency/Kyodo (Oct 28): U.S. to continue navigation operation in South China Sea: Carter
 

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter indicated Tuesday that the United States will continue its freedom of navigation operation, the day after the U.S. Navy sent a guided-missile destroyer to within what China claims to be territorial waters around its man-made islands in the South China Sea.

At a meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carter said, "We will fly, sail and operate wherever international law permits and whenever our operational needs require."

Although declining to comment on a particular operation, Carter acknowledged a U.S. naval patrol in the region as widely reported in the media, saying, "there have been naval operations in that region in recent days."

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