{"id":13960,"date":"2015-10-30T07:03:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T12:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13960"},"modified":"2015-10-30T07:04:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T12:04:06","slug":"china-warns-us-against-minor-incidents-that-could-spark-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13960","title":{"rendered":"China warns US against \u2018minor\u2019 incidents that could \u2018spark war\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"article__heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/320116-china-us-incident-spark-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">China warns US against \u2018minor\u2019 incidents that could \u2018spark war\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"article__cover\">\n<div class=\"media \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__item \" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2015.10\/original\/5632f171c361882a388b45e6.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 U.S. Navy\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__footer media__footer_bottom \">\n<div class=\"media__title media__title_arcticle\">\u00a9 U.S. Navy \/ Reuters<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__share\">\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">China has issued its strongest warning yet to the US over an incident during which a US destroyer sailed within territorial waters of China\u2019s man-made islands in the South China Sea, claiming that US faces running the risk of \u201ca minor incident that sparks war.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>On Tuesday, the Aegis destroyer USS Lassen entered within 12 nautical miles of Subi Reef, an undersea cliff in the South China Sea, which Beijing turned into an artificial island. The destroyer was reportedly traveling with a Navy surveillance airplane near the contested Spratly Islands. China views the man-made creation as part of its territory and claims territorial sovereignty over the waters surrounding it.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the issue of US intrusion on Thursday in a video teleconference, Admiral Wu Shengli warned the chief of US naval operations Admiral John Richardson to refrain from further\u00a0<em>\u201cprovocative acts\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf the United States continues with these kinds of dangerous, provocative acts, there could well be a seriously pressing situation between frontline forces from both sides on the sea and in the air, or even a minor incident that sparks war,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Wu said, according to a Chinese naval statement.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c(I) hope the US side cherishes the good situation between the Chinese and US navies that has not come easily and avoids these kinds of incidents from happening again,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Wu added.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the bilateral exchange during the teleconference, an American official told Reuters that both sides agreed to avoid clashes. The US and Chinese navies also decided to maintain dialogue and follow protocols stipulated under the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES).<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey agreed that it\u2019s very important that both sides continue to use the protocols under the CUES agreement when they&#8217;re operating close to keep the chances for misunderstanding and any kind of provocation from occurring,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said the official.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China warns US against \u2018minor\u2019 incidents that could \u2018spark war\u2019 \u00a9 U.S. Navy \/ Reuters China has issued its strongest warning yet to the US over an incident during which a US destroyer sailed within territorial waters of China\u2019s man-made islands in the South China Sea, claiming that US faces running the risk of \u201ca [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[130,683,8114,1439,10357,10355,827,10354,10356,862],"class_list":["post-13960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-reuters","tag-rt-news","tag-south-china-sea","tag-spartly-islands","tag-territorial-waters","tag-united-states","tag-us-destroyer","tag-uss-lassen","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13962,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13960\/revisions\/13962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}