Britain to sail submarine-hunting warship through disputed South China Sea next month

[Onkel Neal]

So, the Royal Navy is going to visit the Chinese stronghold. Risky and bold, this should be interesting.

A British submarine-hunting warship will sail from Australia through the disputed South China Sea next month to assert freedom of navigation rights, a senior official said Tuesday in a move likely to irk Beijing. China claims nearly all of the resource-rich waterway and has been turning reefs and islets into islands and installing military facilities such as runways and equipment on them.

http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southe...rough-disputed