US Warship Sails Through Strategic Taiwan Strait Amid China Tension

US Warship Sails Through Strategic Taiwan Strait Amid China Tension
The guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54) is pictured in the Philippine Sea on June 21, 2018. U.S. Navy photo/Erwin Jacob V. Miciano/Released
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WASHINGTON—The U.S. military said on July 24, that 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.