A U.S. aircraft carrier sailed through the disputed South
China Sea on Tuesday in the latest show of America's military might amid new territorial flare-ups involving China and three rival claimant states.
The U.S. Navy flew a small group of Philippine generals, officials and journalists to the USS Ronald Reagan, where they watched fighter jets landing and taking off by catapult with thunderous blasts.
"The motto of this carrier is peace through strength," Rear Adm. Karl Thomas told journalists.