BEIJING, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- China's military has expelled the U.S. destroyer Higgins that illegally intruded into China's territorial waters near Huangyan Dao on Wednesday, according to a military spokesperson.
He Tiecheng, spokesperson for the navy of the Southern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), said that the theater command organized forces to lawfully track, monitor, issue warnings, and expel the U.S. warship, which entered the territorial waters near Huangyan Dao without authorization from the Chinese government. ■
