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The United States Navy sent a warship through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Tuesday – the fifth such transit since President Joe Biden took office in January – prompting an angry protest from the People’s Liberation Army . Analysts said US Navy transits through the waterway were becoming the norm, as were warnings from the PLA in response, and they were raising the risk of conflict given the tensions and lack of communications between the two sides. The US Navy’s 7th Fleet said the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur had conducted a “routine Taiwan Strait transit” on Tuesday,...
