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7th Fleet Destroyer transits Taiwan Strait

05 March 2024

From Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet Public Affairs

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John Finn (DDG 113) conducted a routine south-to-north Taiwan Strait transit on March 5, 2024.

U.S. ships transit between the South China Sea and the East China Sea via the Taiwan Strait and have done so for many years. The transit occurred through a corridor in the Taiwan Strait that is beyond any coastal state’s territorial seas. Within this corridor all nations enjoy high-seas freedoms of navigation, overflight, and other internationally lawful uses of the sea related to these freedoms. 

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