According to the Taiwan United News Network reported on January 25, the Seventh Fleet of the U.S. Navy issued a press release saying that the Berke -class missile destroyer Fien passed the Taiwan Strait on the 24th local time.
The Mifenen destroyer (Reuters data picture)
It is reported that this is the first time that the U.S. military announced the information of the Taiwan Strait after the election of the leaders in Taiwan, which is also the first time in 2024.
According to reports from Taiwan Zhongshi News Network on January 24, the Taiwan authorities' defense authorities said that night that a US ship was from the north to the Taiwan Strait from the north to the Taiwan Strait. During the period through the Strait, the Taiwan Army had the dynamics of the surrounding sea airspace throughout the process, and the condition was normal.
Regarding the U.S. acts, the PLA's Eastern Theater spokesman Shi Yi Ji Army said that on January 24, the U.S. destroyer passed the Taiwan Strait and publicly speculated.The Eastern theater of the Chinese People's Liberation Army organized troops to quit the supervisors of the US ships and aircraft, and handled it in accordance with laws and regulations.Recently, the U.S. military has frequently implemented a provocative act, and maliciously destroyed the regional peace and stability.The theater troops always maintain a high alert and resolutely defend the national sovereign security and regional peace and stability.