On Sunday, the USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville guided-missile cruisers were on a voyage “through waters where freedom of navigation on the high seas applies and to fly over them in accordance with international law,” the US Seventh Fleet in Japan said in a statement.
สล็อตเว็บตรง เว็บไซต์คาสิโนของเราให้การสนับสนุนลูกค้าตลอด 24 ชั่วโมง สมควรได้รับในฐานะมาตรฐานการเล่นที่นี่ เรามีทีมสนับสนุนลูกค้ามืออาชีพของเราจะให้การสนับสนุนท่านตลอด 24 ชั่วโมงทุกวันไม่เว้นวันหยุด เราทุ่มเทเพื่อให้เวลาของท่านกับเราสนุกสนาน ปลอดภัยที่สุด กับเกมคาสิโนออนไลน์ที่เชื่อถือได้ทั้งหมด
She said the crossing was “ongoing” and that “there has been no interference from foreign military forces so far.”
“These ships[pass]through a passage in the strait that bypasses the territorial sea of any coastal nation. The transit of ships through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the commitment of the United States to a free and open Indo-Pacific. The United States military flies, sails and operates wherever international law permits.” .
The strait is 110 miles (180 km) of water that separates the autonomous island of Taiwan from mainland China.
Beijing claims sovereignty over Taiwan even though China’s ruling Communist Party has never controlled the island – and regards the strait as part of its “inland waters”.
But the US Navy says most of the strait is in international waters.
The Navy cites an international law that defines territorial waters as extending 12 nautical miles (22.2 kilometers) from a nation’s coast and regularly sends its warships through the strait in what it calls freedom of navigation operations, including recent flights by guided missile destroyers USS Benfold. The USS Port Royal.
Those crossings provoked angry reactions from Beijing.
“Repeated provocations and bragging by the United States fully demonstrate that the United States is the destroyer of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and the maker of security risks in the Taiwan Strait,” said Colonel Shi Yi, a spokesman for the People’s Liberation Army of China. Commanding the Eastern Theatre, after crossing Penfold on July 19.
Beijing intensified its military exercises in the strait – and the skies above it – after Pelosi’s visit to the island earlier this month.
Within minutes of Pelosi’s landing in Taiwan on August 2, the People’s Liberation Army announced four days of military exercises in six regions surrounding the island.
The exercises included launching ballistic missiles into waters around Taiwan, several Chinese warships navigating the Taiwan Strait, and dozens of People’s Liberation Army warplanes breaching the center line – the midway point between mainland China and Taiwan that Beijing says it does not recognize but has respected to some extent. big.
