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Tuesday, April 03, 2001, updated at 11:18(GMT+8)

Pentagon Orders 3 US Warships in South China Sea to Move out

The United States has ordered three warships in the South China Sea region to move out of the area and proceed on duties as assigned, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday, according to a CCTV report.

Earlier, a defense official had said the three destroyers were lingering in the region to "monitor the situation," after a US surveillance plane made an emergency landing on China's Hainan Island over the weekend following a collision with a Chinese fighter jet.