PARIS — A French nuclear attack submarine was among two navy ships that recently conducted a patrol through the South China Sea, its defense minister announced, in a move likely to anger Beijing, which claims most of the strategic waters as its territory.
The SNA Emeraude was accompanied by support ship BSAM Seine for the passage, Defense Minister Florence Parlysaid on Twitter late Monday.
“This extraordinary patrol has just completed a passage in the South China Sea. A striking proof of the capacity of our French Navy to deploy far away and for a long time together with our Australian, American and Japanese strategic partners,” she tweeted along with a picture of the two vessels…
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