WASHINGTON: The U.S. military said on Wednesday (Jul 24) it sent a Navy warship through the Taiwan Strait, which separates Taiwan from China, a ...
if there was any move toward Taiwan's independence, accusing the United States of undermining global stability and denouncing its arms sales to the self-ruled island."The transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific," Commander Clay Doss, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet, said in a statement."The U.S. Navy will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows," he added.
China has been ramping up pressure to assert its sovereignty over the island, which it considers a wayward province of"one China" and sacred Chinese territory.
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