Taiwan Strait: USS Benfold enters Chinese-claimed waters for third time in a week following US Navy destroyer’s South China Sea voyages
Washington said the latest voyage by the guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold demonstrated its “commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” but Beijing blasted it as a “provocation” that showed the United States was a “destroyer of peace and stability.” The strait is a 110-mile (180-kilometer) wide stretch of water that separates the democratic self-ruled island … Read more