U.S. Navy Warship Shadows China's Aircraft Carrier On Its Journey Home

#OSINT #PLAN #USNavy #PhilippineSea Liaoning carrier strike group in the Philippine Sea, 26-04-2021. Heading towards the Miyako Strait, still shadowed by a US Arleigh Burke class. Images @planetlabs . pic.twitter.com/T1A4CNOdnC

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Newsweek: U.S. Warship Shadows China's Aircraft Carrier On Journey Home 

An American warship found itself in the middle of a Chinese navy flotilla on Monday as it shadowed the group led by aircraft carrier Liaoning out of South China Sea and into the Western Pacific. 

Satellite images captured Liaoning and five People's Liberation Army escort vessels sailing in the Philippine Sea, while a conspicuous U.S. Navy vessel—likely an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer—followed closely behind. 

The PLA Navy's first aircraft carrier is on a return journey to the East China Sea after a month-long deployment in the South China Sea, where it conducted exercises in view of American and Japanese naval assets.  

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WNU Editor: The Chinese are very blunt on why their fleet is out there .... China's Liaoning aircraft carrier group crosses Miyako Strait, patrols Diaoyu Islands, 'warning to Japan' (Global Times). 

Update: The US Navy has been monitoring this Chinese aircraft carrier strike force for the past 10 days (see video below).