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US Navy guided missile cruiser sails through Taiwan Strait

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Eighth passage of US Navy ship so far this year

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/09/20
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

The USS Antietam (photo by John Decoursey). (By Wikimedia Commons)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – On the day Taiwan announced diplomatic relations with the Pacific island nation of Kiribati were ending, a United States Navy guided missile cruiser sailed through the Taiwan Strait, reports said Friday (September 20).

The Ministry of National Defense identified the ship as the USS Antietam based in the Japanese port of Yokosuka, the Central News Agency reported.    [FULL  STORY]

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