Taipei: US warships sailed through the Strait separating Taiwan and China on Tuesday, the Navy said, the first passage like leaders from two super rival participants held a video summit.
The section through the Taiwan Strait by Arleigh Burke-Class Stopke Destroyer Rudal USS Milius is a routine transit, the word Fleet seven of the US.
Voyage, the 11th expressed freedom of navigation exercises this year, “shows US commitment to indo-Pacific free and open,” he said in a statement.
The latest transit emerged after US President Joe Biden and Xi Jinping China traded a strong warning in Taiwan’s future at the virtual peak earlier this month.
Media China reported after the XI summit warned Biden who encouraged Taiwan’s independence to “play with fire”.
US warships regularly conducted exercises in the Strait, often triggered an angry response from Beijing, who claimed Taiwan and the surrounding waters as their own territory.
The United States and many other countries see routes as international waters open for all.
The more US allies have transit routes as Beijing intensifying their military threats to Taiwan and strengthening their control over the southern China disputed.
English, Canadian, French and Australian warships all made a hallway through the Taiwanese Strait in recent years, triggering protests from Beijing.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian slammed the latest transit as “deliberate efforts to disturb and damage regional peace and stability”.
“The US must immediately correct his mistake, stop stirring the problem, crossing the line and playing with fire,” he warned.
Collin Koh, a researcher at the Singapore School of International School of International, made the US transit database stated through the Taiwan Strait.
Nine was carried out in 2019 attended by 15 in 2020.
So far there have been 11 years, including the USS Milius Crossing.