Taiwan Reports Chinese Aircraft Carrier Sailed Through Strait

Taiwan Reports Chinese Aircraft Carrier Sailed Through Strait
Sailors and fighter jets on the deck of the Chinese navy's aircraft carrier Liaoning in the sea near Qingdao, in eastern China’s Shandong Province on April 23, 2019. Mark Schiefelbein/AFP via Getty Images
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TAIPEI—A Chinese aircraft carrier group led by the vessel Shandong sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, Taiwan’s defense ministry said, amid heightened military tension over the island Beijing claims as its own territory.

The ministry said the Shandong, commissioned in 2019, had sailed in a southerly direction through the western part of the strait, and it had dispatched “appropriate forces” to monitor the Chinese activities.