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US-China tensions

US warships transit Taiwan Strait for second time this month

China's Defence Ministry denounces the trip as 'provocation' and 'a show of force'

The U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur.    © Reuters

TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) -- Two U.S. warships sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday drawing protest from Beijing, the second such mission this month and coming almost two weeks after a Chinese aircraft carrier group used the same waterway.

China, which claims democratically run Taiwan as its own territory, has been angered by stepped-up U.S. support for the island, including arms sales and sailing warships through the Taiwan Strait, further souring Beijing-Washington relations.

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