China slams U.S. ‘provocation’ in Taiwan Strait, pledges further military drills

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Open this photo in gallery: The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson conducts routine underway operations in the Taiwan Strait, on Sept. 9, 2023.Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jamaal Liddell/The Associated Press China criticized the United States on Thursday for causing “trouble and provocation” after the U.S. Navy sailed its first warship through the sensitive Taiwan Strait since presidential and parliamentary elections on the island. China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Taiwan says only the island’s people can decide their future. “U.S....