US Guided-Missile Destroyer Sails Through Taiwan Strait Amid China Threat

The USS Milius (DDG69) guided-missile destroyer arrives to join the Forward Deployed Naval Force at the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, on May 22, 2018. Issei Kato/Reuters

The United States deployed the guided-missile destroyer USS Milius through the Taiwan Strait on April 16, just days after the Chinese military simulated precision strikes against Taiwan.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer conducted “a routine Taiwan Strait transit” to demonstrate the U.S. commitment to a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet said in a statement.