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Carter: U.S. will conduct freedom of navigation operations in South China Sea again

The United States will conduct freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea again, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in a speech on Saturday (November 7) although he gave no timeline for any such actions. “We’ve done them before, all over the world,” Carter said at a defense forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. “And we will do them again.” China claims most of the South China Sea, through which […]