Having stated its intention months ago, the United States is now conducting navigation in international water around the Spratly Islands. The Arleigh Burke class AEGIS destroyer, USS Lassen will patrol within the 12-nautical-mile mark around the artificial islands built by China in the South China Sea. This marks the start of challenges to China's territorial claims in one of the world's busiest sea lanes. China shore up Subi and Mischief reefs in the Spratly archipelago in a massive dredging project and turned them into artifical islands in 2014. These reefs that were formerly submerged at high tide. The United States has announced it does not recognise China's claims to territorial waters around the artificial islands.
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