CHINA-US: USN WARSHIPS TRANSIT TAIWAN STRAIT
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Pentagon spokesman Colonel Rob Manning confirmed to reporters during a press briefing on October 22, that “in the Taiwan Strait, earlier today, USS Curtis Wilbur and USS Antietam conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit in accordance with international law”. The USS Curtis Wilbur is a guided-missile destroyer and the USS Antietam a guided-missile cruiser. Manning added that the US Navy will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law permits. This is the second transit through the Taiwan Strait by US warships in less than four months after two destroyers, the USS Mustin and the USS Benfold, passed through the strait in July.
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