Saturday 5 May 2018

US, China in Djibouti laser spat as India refocuses on Indian Ocean backyard- International News

WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday warned of "near-term and long-term consequences" arising from China’s militarization of the South China Sea even as the two countries edged towards a firefight in the Indian Ocean, a backyard New Delhi has just begun to focus on.

In one of the first such confrontations in the busy Indian Ocean region that now accounts for more than half of the world’s commercial traffic, 
Washington accused Chinese military personnel in the East African entrepot of Djibouti of laser attacks against American pilots operating at its nearby base, causing eye injuries to two of them.


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