A Chinese warship cut the path of the US destroyer "USS Chung-Hoon" Less than 150 meters of space is said to have been between the two ships. The U.S.

accuses the Chinese of an "unsafe" maneuver. China, on the other hand, speaks of a "deliberately induced risk" The Formosa Strait incident is just another in a series of Sino-American tensions. At the end of May, a dangerous situation already occurred in the South China Sea – but in international airspace.