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2 US Navy Ships Sail Through Taiwan Strait, 1st Transit Since Trump Inauguration

Observers say the actions serve to deter the Chinese regime’s aggression toward Taiwan and maintain freedom of navigation in the strait.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) conducts routine underway operations in the Taiwan Strait, on Sept. 9, 2023. Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jamaal Liddell/U.S. Navy via AP

By Alex Wu
2/15/2025 Updated: 2/15/2025


Two U.S. navy ships sailed through the Taiwan Strait this week for the first time since President Donald Trump took office in January. Observers have said that it shows the continuity of U.S. policy in the Taiwan Strait.

The U.S. Navy said that Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson and Pathfinder-class oceanographic survey ship USNS Bowditch sailed through the Taiwan Strait from north to south from Feb. 10 to 12.

“The transit occurred through a corridor in the Taiwan Strait that is beyond any coastal state’s territorial seas,“ Navy Commander Matthew Comer, a spokesperson at the U.S. military’s Indo-Pacific Command, said in a statement. ”Within this corridor all nations enjoy high-seas freedom of navigation, overflight, and other internationally lawful uses of the sea related to these freedoms.”

Although U.S. ships pass through the Taiwan Strait several times a year, “it’s a statement that two warships instead of one” were present, according to Ou Si-Fu, research fellow and director of Division of Chinese Politics, Military and Warfighting Concepts at Taiwan’s Institute for National Defense and Security Research.

“The Chinese regime already considers the Taiwan Strait its territorial sea. But the international community recognizes it as an international water,” Ou told The Epoch Times on Feb. 12.

It shows that “Trump wanted to concentrate U.S. forces to deal with China and the United States attaches great importance to the security of the Taiwan Strait,” he said.

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