The exercise was welcomed by Taiwan.
The drill was the second in a month by a US Navy ship and the second jointly by the US and Canada in less than a year, since October 2021.
Canada’s defence minister Anita Anand said that the exercise shows her country is deeply committed to upholding global stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region. “This operation though the Taiwan Strait is, even more, a concrete demonstration of the resolute opposition of democratic allies to China’s expansion attempts,” Taiwan’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
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