Along with two amphibious assault ships, USS Makin Island and USS Essex, US Navy ships crossed the South China Sea 11 times in 2021said the group of experts. The South China Sea Survey Initiative detailed that apart from the USS Carl Vinson strike group, the United States sent three more this year, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the USS Nimitz and the USS Ronald Reagan, to the area. “It is urgent to establish standards that include air, surface and water, including conventional submarines, nuclear submarines and unmanned submarines, otherwise there will be accidents in the South China Sea.” “The US military deployment in the region has been increasing since 2009” In Wu’s view, since both Beijing and Washington have used more submarines and underwater drones, it is important to include those weapons in the code for unforeseen encounters at sea. “If there is another collision in the South China Sea, like the one that happened in 2001, would be catastrophic, given China’s current military and national strength“, he stressed.
He recalled an accident in 2001, when a US reconnaissance plane collided with a Chinese fighter, killing the Asian country’s pilot and forcing the Americans to land on the island of Hainan. The expert said the risk of incidents between Beijing and Washington was increasing, and urged both sides to speed up talks on a code of conduct. Meanwhile, last year they did not reach 1,000 flights, according to the South China Sea Survey Initiative. Wu Shicun, president of the National Institute for Studies on the South China Sea of China, pointed out this Wednesday in an international forum that the United States has held so far in 2021 more than 500 reconnaissance flights over the region, a total that rises to more than 2,000 if operations over the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea are added. “It is urgent to establish standards that include air, surface and water” at least nine times throughout this year. They added that US aircraft carriers entered the area.
SCS Probing Initiative November 1, 2021Īnalysts said Tuesday that the scale of the operations increased, especially after a strike group from the US aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and Britain’s HMS Queen Elizabeth carried out a series of exercises in October. #Statistics: In October, the US military conducted 52 reconnaissance flights over the #SCS according to ADS-B data.October also saw Carl Vinson & Queen Elizabeth CSGs operated in the #SCS.Notably, the intensity of recon operations grow correspondingly as CSG enter the region.
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