Deployment of aircraft carriers not in response to political event: US Navy

The deployment of three 100,000-ton US Navy aircraft carriers to the Pacific Ocean on June 15 for the first time in years has drawn swift reaction from China

The United States on Wednesday said that deployment of three of its 11 nuclear aircraft carriers to the Pacific Ocean is not in response to "any world or political events" and was done to "promote security, stability and prosperity throughout the Indo-Pacific region."

Commander Reann Mommsen, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet, told ANI that "operating three carrier strike groups in the Pacific is not in response to any political or world events and is proof of the high state of readiness of the United States Navy."

"US Navy forces are present and active around the Pacific on