BEIJING: China accused the United States of trying to “stir up trouble” on Monday by sending two US guided-missile destroyers near disputed South China Sea islands.

The two warships sailed near the Beijing-claimed Spratly Islands earlier Monday as part of what Washington calls “freedom of navigation operations,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying told a daily press briefing.

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