US Navy plane flies through Taiwan Strait after Chinese drills

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TAIPEI, July 13 (Reuters) - Chinese fighter jets monitored a U.S. Navy patrol plane that flew through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday, following two days of Chinese military exercises to the south of the island Beijing views as China's sovereign territory. China has been incensed by U.S. military missions through the narrow strait, most frequently of warships but occasionally of aircraft, saying China "has sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction" over the waterway. Taiwan and the United States dispute that, saying it is an international waterway. The U.S. Navy's 7th fleet said the P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and reconnaissance plane,...