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The Shandong sailed just 60 nautical miles off Taiwan’s southernmost tip, island’s defence ministry says in statement on Monday.
TAIPEI: Taiwan said on Monday it had detected 39 Chinese warplanes and an aircraft carrier near the East Asian island after a United States destroyer and a Canadian frigate transited through the Taiwan Strait over the weekend.
China's Shandong aircraft carrier reportedly sailed past Taiwan to enter the West Pacific for military exercises on Monday.
US and Canadian warships transited the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, part of an ongoing Western effort to flout China’s territorial claims to Taiwan and over the waterway separating it from the mainland.
The U.S. routinely sails through the strait in what it calls “freedom of navigation” operations.