A U.S. guided-missile destroyer and a Canadian frigate sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Oct. 20, less than a week after communist China conducted military exercises around Taiwan.
The U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet issued a statement on Sunday saying that the destroyer USS Higgins and the Canadian frigate HMCS Vancouver made a “routine” transit a day earlier “through waters where high-seas freedom of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law.”
The transit through the Taiwan Strait, one of the busiest waterways in the world, demonstrated Washington’s and Ottawa’s “commitment to upholding freedom of navigation” for all countries, the statement reads….