Taipei, Taiwan — A US warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait, the American navy said Thursday, a day after a top US commander warned of the threat to Taiwan of a Chinese invasion within the next six years.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John Finn conducted a routine transit Wednesday through the waterway separating the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, the US Seventh Fleet said.
The third such voyage since President Joe Biden took office “demonstrates the US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” it said in a statement.
US warships periodically conduct navigation exercises in the strait, often triggering angry responses from Beijing, which claims T…
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