Tensions rise as Chinese and US warships have close encounters in Taiwan Strait.

A Chinese warship came within 150 yards of a US destroyer in the Taiwan Strait in "an unsafe manner," as China blamed the United States for "deliberately provoking risk" in the region. The US and Canadian navies were conducting a joint exercise in the strait when the Chinese ship cut in front of the US guided-missile destroyer Chung-Hoon forcing it to slow down to avoid a collision. The maritime encounter was the latest close call between the Chinese and US military.