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USS John S. McCain Conducts South China Sea Freedom of Navigation Operation Past Mischief Reef; 3rd South China Sea FONOp This Year
A U.S. guided-missile destroyer came within 12 nautical miles of the contested Chinese installation built on an artificial island off…