China described as insufficient the results of the investigation into the causes of the incident with the American nuclear submarine USS Connecticut in the South China Sea in early October, reports RT.
Commenting on the findings by US experts, who claim that the submarine collided with an unknown underwater object, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said that United States “continues to pretend to be deaf and dumb” and urged Washington to explain in detail the circumstances surrounding the accident.
We have repeatedly expressed our serious concerns about the incident and insisted The United States to take responsibility and provide a detailed and satisfactory explanation of the international community and the countries of the region, he stressed.
China is demanding answers to the incident with the US nuclear submarine in the South China Sea
In China, it is criticized that the American media is silent, as are the media of other Western countries.
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China has already demanded answers in respect of the incident, which was not immediately reported and in which several members of the submarine’s crew were injured.
On October 7, the US Pacific Fleet announced that on October 2, the nuclear submarine The Connecticut collided with an unknown object during a dive in the Indo-Pacific region, none of the crew received life-threatening injuries and the nuclear reactor was not damaged. The incident took place in the South China Sea.
According to Chinese analysts, the crash site was east of the Sisha Islands (Paracel Islands). The submarine, analysts say, may have trained to intercept Chinese submarines along the route of the strike group of US Navy aircraft carriers.
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A US nuclear submarine has collided with an unknown object in the South China Sea
There are wounded, the site is not another submarine, China wants details of the incident
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