US says naval destroyer sailed through Taiwan Strait

The US Navy said the USS Milius' transit through the strait demonstrates the United States' commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific. - Reuters

TAIPEI (AFP): The US Navy said its guided-missile destroyer the USS Milius had sailed through the Taiwan Strait in a "freedom of navigation" operation carried out days after China staged massive war games around the island.

The warship "conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit" on Sunday (April 16), the Navy's 7th Fleet said in a statement, "through waters where high-seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law".