Four Chinese vessels were ‘transiting in international waters but still inside the US exclusive economic zone’
The EEZ doesn't pose any restrictions on international transit. The Chinese can sail in our EEZ. We can sail in their EEZ. It's only the territorial sea that's restricted.
Like, you can say that warships or warplanes being near territory is something to watch, sure, but news media needs to quit exploiting the fact that readers don't know the difference between different types of waters to manufacture "more-interesting" stories.