The guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon, top, sails in the South China Sea alongside the Canadian frigate HMCS Montreal, May 30, 2023. (Andre Richard/U.S. Navy)
A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer joined forces with Japanese, Australian and Canadian warships for a three-day exercise that began the same day it encountered an aggressive Chinese vessel in the Taiwan Strait, the Stars and Stripes reports.