US Navy says its destroyer USS Milius sailed through the Taiwan Strait in a 'freedom of navigation' operation carried out days after China staged war games around the self-ruled island
Beijing termed that operation an illegal intrusion carried out"without the approval of the Chinese government".
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".
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