US Navy deploys four warships east of Taiwan as Pelosi heads to Taipei

The USS Ronald Reagan (pictured) is operating with a guided missile cruiser, USS Antietam, and a destroyer, USS Higgins. - Reuters

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG/TAIPEI, Aug 2 (Reuters): Four US warships, including an aircraft carrier, were positioned in waters east of Taiwan on what the US Navy called routine deployments on Tuesday amid Chinese anger over U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit the island.

The carrier USS Ronald Reagan had transited the South China Sea and was currently in the Philippines Sea, east of Taiwan and the Philippines and south of Japan, a U.S. Navy official told o Reuters.