China launched two missiles into the South China Sea today in a warning to the United States, it has been reported. This comes a day after China claimed the US flew a U-2 spy plane into a no-fly zone without permission and as tensions continue to ratchet up in the region between the two superpowers.
This, it is reported, was while the Chinese military was undertaking a live-fire naval drill in the Bohai Sea off the country's north coast.
A source, said to be close to Chinese armed forces, told the South China Morning Post: "This is China’s response to the potential risks brought by the increasingly frequent incoming US warplanes and military vessels in the South China Sea. "China doesn’t want the neighbouring countries to misunderstand
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