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\nUSS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan conduct drills in the South China Sea just days after Beijing threatened to destroy the strike group, as tensions rise in the hotly contested region<\/em><\/p>\n

Two US Navy aircraft carriers are operating in the contested South China Sea just two days after Beijing threatened to attack them.<\/p>\n

USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan joined together along with their attendant strike groups, carrier-launched F-18 fighters and a B-52 bomber for military exercises.<\/p>\n

The US Navy hasn’t operated two carriers together for such shows of force in the region since 2014 when the USS George Washington and USS Carl Vinson sailed there side by side.<\/p>\n

This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

Two US aircraft carriers sail in South China Sea as tensions mount<\/h3>\n

For the first time in several years, the United States has deployed two aircraft carriers in the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy said Monday, right after China flexed its own naval muscle with a military exercise in the disputed Paracel Islands.<\/p>\n

The military maneuvers point to rising tensions in the region, as the U.S. pushes back against an increasingly assertive China that has been ratcheting up pressure on other claimant nations. A U.S. analyst warned that with the current pattern activity, there was a danger of escalation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is heightened because both the United States and China as well as most other claimants tend to assess the escalation potential to be quite low \u2014 hence the very real possibility of provocative behavior by one or more states triggering an unintended escalatory spiral,\u201d said Andrew Scobell, a senior political scientist for the U.S.-based RAND Corporation and a professor at Marine Corps University.<\/p>\n

The American deployment of the aircraft carriers USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan, and their accompanying strike groups, began with drills in the Philippine Sea on June 28. The ships then moved west into the South China Sea on July 4, America\u2019s Independence Day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A show of force in response to this, perhaps: <\/p>\n

FBI: China attacking US in massive campaign including cyber, propaganda, economic espionage and more<\/strong>
\nAmerican Military News<\/a><\/p>\n

Read the entire article here: American Military News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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