Britain's aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives in New York on October 19, 2018.
China claims almost all of the 1.3
million-square-mile South China Sea as its sovereign territory, and it has
denounced the presence of foreign warships there as the root of tensions in the
region.
The largest naval flotilla assembled by Britain in recent
years will set sail in May on a months' long voyage through the Pacific, the
country's Defense Ministry said Monday.
The strike group will be led by the aircraft
carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, marking its maiden deployment. The ship, one of
the UK's two aircraft carriers, is the largest warship the UK has ever sent to
sea.
Joining the carrier will be two destroyers, two
anti-submarine frigates, a submarine and two auxiliary supply ships, a ministry
statement said.
A United States Navy guided-missile destroyer will sail
with the group as well as a frigate from the Netherlands that will be tasked
with air defense, the ministry said………………..
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