A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel has sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time, a source familiar with the matter said Thursday, in an apparent challenge to China’s growing military assertiveness in the region.
On Wednesday, the destroyer Sazanami, along with Australian and New Zealand vessels, headed southward from the East China Sea and through the narrow waterway between China and Taiwan, a self-ruled island that China claims as its own territory, according to the source.
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