US Warship Transits Taiwan Strait Less Than a Week After Election

The guided missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67) is underway in the waters of Western Pacific Ocean on Dec. 21, 2004. Patrick M. Bonafede/U.S. Navy via Getty Images

TAIPEI–A U.S. warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Jan. 16, the island’s defense ministry said, less than a week after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen won re-election by a landslide on a platform of standing up to China which claims the island.

The ship sailed in a northerly direction through the sensitive waterway and Taiwan’s armed forces monitored it throughout, the ministry said in a brief statement on Friday, describing the sailing as an “ordinary mission.”