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For the 11th time this year, a US Navy destroyer has gone through the delicate international waters between Taiwan and China, one week after President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a high-level conversation to address fundamental disagreements between the two countries. The USS Milius, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer based in Japan, “conducted a regular Taiwan Strait passage” on Tuesday local time, according to a statement from the US 7th Fleet. The 7th Fleet stated, “The ship’s transit through the Taiwan Strait reaffirms the US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific.” “Wherever international law permits, the...
