Beijing says US 'deliberately disrupting' peace after American warship sails through Taiwan Strait

China has accused Washington of goading Taiwanese secessionists into action after a US warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait, in what the Pentagon deemed a "routine" freedom of navigation transit. The USS Curtis Wilbur, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, traversed the strait on Tuesday, passing through a crucial waterway that separates Mainland China from Taiwan, which Beijing sees as part of its own territory. The US Navy described the passage as a routine mission aimed at showing "the US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific," vowing to continue "to fly, sail, and operate anywhere" it can, short of…