CTV National News is on board HMCS Ottawa, with correspondent Adrian Ghobrial embedded with Canadian Navy personnel and documenting their work in the South China Sea – a region where China is increasingly flexing its maritime muscle. This is his sixth story in a series of dispatches from the ship.
The United States Navy’s USS Higgins joined HMCS Ottawa in the South China Sea, near the contested Scarborough Shoal, on Thursday. The two warships travelled south together towards the Spratly Islands – a number of which China has militarized.
The two allied warships weren’t alone, as soon as they connected in the South China Sea, two Peoples Liberation Army Navy vessels began to shadow the Canadian and American warships.
The appearance of the hulking Chinese Navy destroyer dubbed “Changsha” and a warship called the …