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TAIPEI – Taipei’s defense ministry said Thursday it had detected 23 Chinese warplanes and five navy warships around the island, a day after a US warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait.
The 180-kilometer Taiwan Strait separates Taiwan from China and is an important transport artery for cargo ships. The destroyer “conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit on May 8 through waters where high-seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law,” the US 7th fleet said Wednesday.
In a statement late Wednesday, Chinese naval colonel Li Xi, spokesman for the Eastern Theatre Command, called the US warship sail-through “public hype”.
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