U.S. Navy Destroyer Passes Through Taiwan Strait (Again)
This file photo shows the USS Barry during a replenishment-at-sea in the Pacific Ocean on September 16, 2020. © Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class James Hong/U.S. Navy
Stars and Stripes: USS Barry cruises through Taiwan Strait after Beijing blasts McCain’s South China Sea transit
A Navy destroyer passed through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, nearly a week after the Chinese military challenged another U.S. destroyer’s presence in the nearby South China Sea.
The USS Barry cruised through the strait in accordance with international law, according to a statement from U.S. Pacific Fleet. It was the 10th such transit by a U.S. warship this calendar year.
The last was made Aug. 30 by another guided-missile destroyer, the USS Halsey. “The [Barry’s] transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” the statement said. “The U.S. Navy will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows.”
On Oct. 9, another destroyer, the USS John S. McCain, “asserted navigational rights and freedoms” in the South China Sea near the Paracel Islands, a 7th Fleet spokeswoman, Cmdr. Reann Mommsen, said in an email Thursday.
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WNU Editor: China responds .... US warship transit through Taiwan Straits to instigate secessionists, attempt to obstruct China’s reunification futile: experts (Global Times).
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