US to Continue Patrols Despite South China Sea Missile Deployment

China's placement of surface-to-air missiles in the South China Sea may have complicated the region's territorial dispute, but officials say it's not the end of U.S. patrols and flyovers. "We have the capability to counter this type of surface-to-air missiles," a U.S. defense official told VOA. "We're [in the South China Sea] strengthening principal order and upholding international law. That won't change," another official told VOA on the...

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