WASHINGTON: The
Pentagon
stated it was “worried” about Chinese military exercises around a contested archipelago in
the South China Sea
, alerting that the maneuvers will “additional destabilize” the region.
China’s expanding military existence in the contested waters has worried numerous of its neighbors, and Washington rejects Beijing’s territorial claims to much of the region, consisting of
the Paracel Islands
” The Department of Defense is concerned about individuals’s Republic of China (PRC) decision to carry out military exercises around the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea on July 1-5,” the Pentagon said in a declaration on Thursday.
The activities “further destabilize the situation” in the location claime