TAIPEI (AFP): A United States warship has sailed through the Taiwan Strait, Taipei's defence ministry said Friday (Jan 17), the first such passage since the island resoundingly re-elected its independence-leaning president.
The warship was on a "routine mission", the ministry said, as it traversed the stretch of water that divides the self-ruling island from the authoritarian Chinese mainland.
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