US Navy warship transits through Taiwan Strait

A 2014 photo shows the USS Chung-Hoon, a guided-missile destroyer, which is said to have transited the Taiwan Strait. - Reuters

WASHINGTON (AFP): An American warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Thursday (Jan 5), the US Navy said, in a move likely to anger Beijing.

The guided missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon "conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit Jan. 5 (local time) through waters where high-seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law," the Navy said in a statement.