US says naval destroyer sailed through Taiwan Strait days after China staged war games

The warship “conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit” on Sunday, the Navy’s 7th Fleet said in a statement.

The US Navy said its guided-missile destroyer the USS Milius had sailed through the Taiwan Strait in a “freedom of navigation” operation carried out days after China staged massive war games around the island.

The warship “conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit” on Sunday, the Navy’s 7th Fleet said in a statement, “through waters where high-seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law”.