A U.S. warship sailed near a disputed island in the South China Sea claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam on Sunday in an operation meant to challenge the competing claims of all three nations, a U.S. Defense Department official said. The USS Stethem, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island, part of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, the official said. The operation was first reported by Fox News on Sunday.
Experts: Trump’s CNN tweet not only undermined the principle of the media being free but could also ‘embolden autocratic leaders around the world’. Donald Trump’s decision to tweet a video showing him body-slamming the wrestling promoter Vince McMahon, with the clip doctored to show McMahon’s head as a CNN logo, was “un-American”, a leading media ethicist said on Sunday. “It’s definitely un-American,” Kelly McBride, vice-president of the Poynter Institute school of journalism, told the Guardian on Sunday.
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