{"id":4358,"date":"2018-10-23T22:47:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2018-10-23T22:47:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:47:47","slug":"two-us-navy-warships-transit-taiwan-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/23\/two-us-navy-warships-transit-taiwan-strait\/","title":{"rendered":"TWO US NAVY WARSHIPS TRANSIT TAIWAN STRAIT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Steven Stashwick<\/p>\n

Source: The Diplomat<\/p>\n

U.S. Defense officials confirmed that the Japan-based destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur and the cruiser USS Antietam transited through the Taiwan Strait on Monday. Reuters reported that the transit was being considered by U.S. officials two days before it was conducted.<\/p>\n

The strait\u2019s width varies between about 70 and 100 nautical miles and China\u2019s and Taiwan\u2019s territorial waters extend 12 nautical miles from their respective coastlines. The water between those territorial claims are considered high seas and not subject to sovereign claims or jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

Since neither China nor Taiwan make excessive claims over the strait\u2019s high seas the two warship\u2019s passage would not be considered a freedom of navigation operation (FONOP), which the U.S. Navy uses to contest maritime claims that do not conform to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. A spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Fleet told USNI News that the two ships\u2019 transit through the strait demonstrated the United States\u2019 commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific and to operate wherever international law allowed.<\/p>\n

Image source U.S. Navy<\/p>\n

Read more at: https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2018\/10\/2-us-warships-transit-taiwan-strait\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Steven Stashwick Source: The Diplomat U.S. Defense officials confirmed that the Japan-based destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur and the cruiser USS Antietam transited through the Taiwan Strait on Monday. Reuters reported that the transit was being considered by U.S. officials two days before it was conducted. The strait\u2019s width varies between about 70 and 100… Continue reading TWO US NAVY WARSHIPS TRANSIT TAIWAN STRAIT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4360,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions\/4360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}