US Coast Guard ship transited Taiwan Strait after Blinken’s China visit -US Navy

TAIPEI, June 22 (Reuters) – A U.S. Coast Guard ship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday in a transit that China described as “public hype”, after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken having wrapped up a high-profile, widely watched visit to Beijing a day earlier. The national security cutter Stratton made a “routine” Taiwan Strait transit on Tuesday “through waters where high-seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law”, the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet said on Thursday. The politically sensitive strait, which separates China from the democratically governed island of Taiwan, is a frequent source…