After The Fighter Jets, It's The Turn Of Chinese Warships To Cut The US Destroyer Line In The Taiwan Strait

US Warship USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93). (Wikimedia Commons/Mass Communication/Specialist 2nd Class Ryan J. Batchelder)

JAKARTA - A Chinese warship passes within 150 yards (137 meters) of a US missile destroyer in the Taiwan Strait in an "unsafe way", US military official said, while China blames the United States for "deliberately provoking risk" in the region.

The United States and Canada Navy are holding joint exercises in the strait separating Taiwan and China, deploying USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) and HMCS Montreal (FFH 336).

The United States Indo-Pasik Command (US Indopacom) said in a statement that the Chinese ship cut in front of the US guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon, forcing it to slow the ship down to avoid a collision.

It said the Chinese military reprimanded the United States and Canada for "deliberately provoking risk", after the navy of the two countries conducted joint voyages that rarely occur through the sensitive Taiwan Strait.

Video footage broadcast by Canada's website, Global News, shows a'meeting' between the two ships.

US Indo-Pacific Command said USS of the Chung-Hoon and HMCS Montreal ships were transiting "routine" in the strait, when the PLA (N) Luyang III DDG 132 (RRT LY 132) ship cut in front of the American ship, citing the US Indopacom website.

"The closest range of Chinese ships is 150 yards and its actions violate maritime 'road rules' to pass safely in international waters," US Indopacom said.

It was the latest event when the military apparatus of the two countries intersected at close range. Previously, a Chinese fighter jet carried out an "unnecessary aggressive" maneuver near US military aircraft in China's international airspace on May 26, the US Indo-Pacific Command said Tuesday last week.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington Liu Pengyu, did not specifically comment on the incident of the fighter jet. But he said the US had " Often deployed planes and ships to conduct close-range reconnaissance of China, which poses a serious danger to China's national security."

Separately, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in an interview that had been recorded and broadcast on CNN on Sunday, the US sought to maintain "stable cross-sate dynamics" between China and Taiwan, avoiding conflict "which will ultimately destroy the global economy."

It is known, China has claimed Taiwan, which has its own government as its territory, since the Chinese Republican Government fled to the island in 1949, after losing its civil war against communist Mao Zedong.

The Taiwanese government said China had never ruled the island with US President Joe Biden saying the US would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion.