China-US relations: USS Curtis Wilbur sails through Taiwan Strait


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A United States warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait over Beijing’s protests, in the sixth such transit near the self-ruled island under US President Joe Biden’s administration. The USS Curtis Wilbur, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, conducted a “routine transit” through the strategic waterway that separates Taiwan from mainland China on Tuesday to “demonstrate the US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific”, according to a US Navy statement. “The United States military flies, sails, and operates anywhere international law allows,” it said. It was the sixth transit by the US Navy since Biden took office. Washington has made...