Washington: China has denied a request for a US carrier strike group led by the USS John C. Stennis to visit to Hong Kong, the US Defence Department said on Friday, amid heightened tensions over China's territorial claims in the South China Sea. A Pentagon spokesman, Commander Bill Urban, said a US warship, the USS Blue Ridge, was currently in Hong Kong on a port visit and the United States expected that to continue. Mr Urban said the request for...
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