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The USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville are conducting a routine transit, the U.S. 7th Fleet said. It comes at a time when tensions have kept the waterway particularly busy.

Two United States warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, the American navy said, the first such transit since China staged unprecedented military drills around the island. In a statement, the US Navy said the transit "demonstrates the United States' commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific." Tensions in…

The U.S. Navy is sailing two warships through the Taiwan Strait in the first such transit publicized since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August

Remarks come amid spat with China over docking of ship in Sri Lanka

Beijing claims the self-ruled island as its own and has staged military drills in response to visits by US politicians.

Kelly Wu-Chiao Hsieh called for operations to uphold the ‘median line’ in the Taiwan Strait in response to China’s military exercises

Chinese state media says military exercises in crucial shipping route to become ‘regular’ event.

China's Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu has claimed there is "no such thing as a median line in the [Taiwan] Strait" - the unofficial maritime border separating the self-ruled island from the mainland

Taiwan scrambled jets on Thursday to warn away 22 Chinese aircraft in its air defense zone, the Taiwanese defense ministry said. All 22 Chinese aircraft crossed the Taiwan Strait median line, a ministry statement said. China also fired live missiles near Taiwan on Thursday in its biggest drills in the…

China angered by second US “freedom of navigation exercise” this month in Asia Pacific waters.

China's military said on Wednesday that it had monitored and warned a U.S. warship that had sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, a mission that happened shortly after China carried out drills near the island.