Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/08
By: Chiang Chin-yeh, Matt Yu, Elaine Hou, and Joseph Yeh
Taipei, July 8 (CNA) U.S. Navy ships have been transiting through the Taiwan Strait for
Image taken from DDG-65 Facebook (facebook.com/ussbenfold)
many years, the U.S. Pacific Fleet confirmed to CNA after Taiwan’s military made a rare announcement Saturday that two U.S. Navy vessels passed through the Taiwan Strait earlier that day.
U.S. Pacific Fleet spokesman Capt. Charlie Brown confirmed the passage of the two vessels.
“Two U.S. Navy ships conducted a routine transit through the international waters of the Taiwan Strait July 7-8 (local time). U.S. Navy ships transit between the South China Sea and the East China Sea via the Taiwan Strait and have done so for many years,” Brown wrote in an email.
In a rare move, Taiwan’s defense ministry announced in a press release that the two U.S. Navy vessels, Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers DDG-89 and DDG-65 moved into the Taiwan Strait from the south that morning and were continuing on a northeasterly course. [FULL STORY]
