FILE PHOTO - The guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54) is shown in the South China Sea, March 6, 2016. Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Marcus L. Stanley/U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Wednesday it sent a Navy warship through the Taiwan Strait, which separates Taiwan from China, a move likely to anger China during a period of tense relations between Washington and Beijing.
Taiwan is among a growing number of flashpoints in the U.S.-China relationship, which include a trade war, U.S. sanctions and China's increasingly muscular military posture in the South China Sea, where the United States also conducts freedom-of-navigation patrols.
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