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Two warships from Canada and Australia transited the Taiwan Strait while being monitored by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), China's state media reported.
The Chinese state-run newspaper, Global Times, said in a report that the Canadian frigate Ville de Quebec and the Australian guided-missile destroyer Brisbane were the two ships that passed through the waterway that separates communist China from the democratic island of Taiwan.
Taiwan's Defense Ministry said it could not immediately comment, and the Canadian and Australian militaries did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.
“The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) maintained full surveillance and monitoring throughout the transit, with the situation fully under control,” the Global Times reported.
The US Navy and occasionally ships from allied countries such as Canada, Britain and France pass through the strait, which they consider an international waterway, about once a month.
Taiwan also considers it an international waterway. China, which claims Taiwan as its own, says the strategic waterway is part of its territorial waters.
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