(Adnkronos) – Australia and New Zealand have expressed concern over live-fire exercises by Chinese warships in the seas between the two countries, which have required the diversion of commercial flights in the skies above. The Chinese Navy alerted the Australian defense department shortly before the exercise.
Three People’s Liberation Army-Navy vessels, the Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang, the Renhai-class cruiser Zunyi and the Fuchi-class supply ship Weishanhu , pushed to within about 340 nautical miles of Eden, on the south coast of New South Wales, in international waters. It is believed that at least three commercial flights diverted their course.
