The U.S. military said on Wednesday it sent a Navy warship through the Taiwan Strait, which separates Taiwan from China, a move likely to anger
China during a period of tense relations between
Washington and Beijing.
Taiwan is among a growing number of flashpoints in the U.S.-China relationship, which include a trade war, U.S.
sanctions and China's increasingly muscular military posture in the South China Sea, where the
United States also conducts freedom-of-navigation patrols.