US, Canadian Warships Carry Out Taiwan Strait Transit

US, Canadian Warships Carry Out Taiwan Strait Transit
The USS Higgins is docked in the northern Israeli city of Haifa Sept. 6, 2009. Reuters/Baz Ratner
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A U.S. Navy warship and a Canadian frigate carried out a routine transit of the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.
In recent years, U.S. warships, and on occasion those from allied nations such as Britain and Canada, have routinely sailed through the strait, drawing the ire of China, which claims Taiwan over the objections of the island’s democratically elected government.