Thursday, 26 Mar 2020 01:45 PM MYT
The ship sailed north through the waterway and was monitored by Taiwan's armed forces, the island's defence ministry said in a statement on Thursday.Anthony Junco, a spokesman for the US Seventh Fleet, said the ship was the guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell, which conducted “routine Taiwan Strait transit March 25 in accordance with international law.”
In recent weeks China's air force has carried out several exercises close to Taiwan, causing Taiwan's mostly US-equipped military to scramble fighters to intercept and warn away the Chinese aircraft.
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