US Sends First Warships to Taiwan Strait Since Pelosi Visit

For the first time since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the autonomous island strained relations between Washington and Beijing,

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The USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville, two guided-missile cruisers of the Ticonderoga class

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according to a statement from the Seventh Fleet. The fleet stated that the seas were "outside the territorial sea of any coastal state," due to thunderstorms offshore.

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the ship's passage through the Taiwan Strait "demonstrates the United States' commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific."

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the Chinese military claimed that it tracked the US cruisers and was constantly on guard in case any provocations were made.

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The decision by the Biden administration to send two cruisers armed with missiles across the strait may have been a calculated gesture

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its resolve to maintain a military presence in the waterway without drawing further retaliation from China.

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