Taiwan Strait: footage released of near miss between Chinese warship and US destroyer

US military says its ship had to reduce speed to avoid a collision and accuses China of violating maritime rules of safe passage in international water

The US military has released video of what it called an unsafe" Chinese manoeuvre in the Taiwan Strait on the weekend, in which a Chinese navy ship cut sharply across the path of an American destroyer, forcing the US ship to slow to avoid a collision.

The incident occurred on Saturday as the American destroyer USS Chung-Hoon and Canadian frigate HMCS Montreal were conducting a so-called freedom of navigation" transit of the strait between Taiwan and mainland China.