A U.S. navy destroyer has passed through the Taiwan Strait again, the Defense Ministry said Monday, amid rising tensions between the United States and China. It was the second such voyage in two weeks and the ninth this year through the sensitive Taiwan Strait. Meanwhile, Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil is leading a delegation to Taiwan. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has threatened to make Vitzi pay a heavy price.
Reann Mommsen, a representative of the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, said the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey conducted a routine mission through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday in accordance with international law. “The passage of this ship through the Taiwan Strait underscores America’s commitment to a free and open Asia-Pacific region. The United States Navy will continue to fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows.”
The Defense Ministry said In a press release Monday that a U.S. destroyer sailed south after passing through the Taiwan Strait from north to South, and continued to sail south. The U.S. ship sailed through the Taiwan Strait for general navigation tasks, and the Taiwan military has been in full control of relevant developments in the sea and airspace around Taiwan, and the situation is normal.
This is the ninth time this year that a U.S. navy ship has sailed through the Taiwan Strait. The last time was on Aug. 18, when the U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer USS Mustin sailed through the Taiwan Strait and crossed the middle line near The Chinese mainland after a joint training exercise with the Japanese Maritime Self-defense Force in the East China Sea. In response, the Chinese military said it had ordered naval and air forces to track the ship throughout, and slammed the U.S. move as “extremely dangerous.”
The U.S. and China have been stepping up military operations near Taiwan and in the disputed South China Sea. Military confrontations between the U.S. and the People’s Liberation Army are frequent.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar visited Taiwan August 10. At about the same time as the meeting with Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, Chinese People’s Liberation Army aircraft appeared over the Taiwan Strait and briefly crossed the middle line in succession, apparently touching a nerve in Beijing over the warming of US-Taiwan relations.
The passage of the GUIDEd-missile destroyer USS Halsey through the Taiwan Strait is also significant at a time when the Czech Republic, led by The President of the Senate Vitzi, is visiting Taiwan despite intense pressure from Beijing.
Taiwan’s President, tsai ing-wen, on August 27, the Australian institute of strategic studies, a think-tank in Australia (ASPI) hosted a video speech warned that the tension in the Taiwan strait, there is the possibility of a conflict, she expect Beijing to show restraint, to perform its obligations as a regional power, hope that the parties must be prudent, avoid conflict on both sides.
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