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Friday, March 13, 2009

US destroyers to escort ships in South China Sea

Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyerThe United States has decided to provide heavily armed destroyers to escort US surveillance ships operating in the South China Sea after a tense naval standoff this week, a US official said on Thursday.

"Right now they are going to escort these types of ships for the foreseeable future," the defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP.

The US government has said Chinese boats moved directly in front of the US Navy surveillance vessel Impeccable on Sunday, forcing the ship to take emergency action to avoid a collision.

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