Shafaq News/ The US aircraft carrierUSS Nimitz departed the South China Sea on Monday, sailing west, according todata from the ship tracking website Marine Traffic, as the conflict betweenIsrael and Iran intensifies.
The carrier had been scheduled for aport visit to Danang City in central Vietnam later this week. However, twosources—including a diplomat—confirmed to Reuters that a formal receptionplanned for June 20 was cancelled. One of them cited a notice from the USEmbassy in Hanoi attributing the cancellation to “an emergent operationalrequirement.”
Last week, the Nimitz Carrier StrikeGroup carried out maritime security operations in the South China Sea as partof what the US Pacific Fleet described as a routine naval presence in theIndo-Pacific.
As of Monday morning, tracking datashowed the vessel changing course and heading west, raising speculation aboutpossible redeployment toward the Middle East, where US interests faceheightened risk amid ongoing Iranian-Israeli hostilities.
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