The United States sailed two ships through the Taiwan Strait, Sunday, in an operation that comes as top officials from the Trump administration prepare to travel to Beijing for high-level trade talks
The US Navy destroyer, the USS Curtis Wilbur, and the US Coast Guard cutter, USCGC Bertholf,"conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit March 24-25 in accordance with international law," the Navy's Seventh fleet said in a statement. "The ships' transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific," Cdr. Clay Doss, a spokesman for the Navy's Seventh Fleet told CNN in a statement.
In an exclusive interview with CNN last month, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen said the military threat posed by China was growing"every day" in line with a more assertive foreign policy under its President Xi Jinping.While the US does not formally recognize Taiwan as an independent country it does maintain close relations with the island, a relationship defined by the Taiwan Relations act which was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in April of 1979.
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