{"id":27244,"date":"2018-11-29T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/11\/29\/china-expresses-concerns-over-2-us-navy-warships-in-taiwan-strait\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:17:17","slug":"china-expresses-concerns-over-2-us-navy-warships-in-taiwan-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/11\/29\/china-expresses-concerns-over-2-us-navy-warships-in-taiwan-strait\/","title":{"rendered":"China expresses concerns over 2 US Navy warships in Taiwan Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BEIJING \u2014 China said Thursday that it had expressed concerns to the U.S. over the passage of a pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/10\/22\/two-navy-warships-transit-taiwan-strait\/\" target=_blank>Navy warships through the Taiwan Strait<\/a>, days ahead of a planned meeting between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/07\/09\/china-newspaper-denounces-us-navy-ships-taiwan-strait-passage\/\" target=_blank>Taiwan was the \u201cmost important and sensitive issue\u201d<\/a> in relations between the sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We have expressed our concerns to the U.S.,&#8221; Geng said at a daily news briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/09\/25\/why-china-turned-down-a-hong-kong-port-call-for-a-us-navy-ship\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/27083989838_d54150f0e8_k.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Why China turned down a Hong Kong port call for a US Navy ship<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">China on Tuesday demanded the U.S. cancel a $330 million sale of military equipment to Taiwan, warning of \u201csevere damage\u201d to bilateral relations and mutual cooperation if Washington fails to comply.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Taiwan issue has a bearing on China&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity. It is the most important and sensitive issue in China-U.S. ties,&#8221; Geng said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China&#8217;s defense ministry also said it had closely followed the warships&#8217; passage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1362\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/29166895073_e0906fda44_k.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/29166895073_e0906fda44_k.jpg.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/29166895073_e0906fda44_k.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/29166895073_e0906fda44_k.jpg.jpg?resize=768,511 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/29166895073_e0906fda44_k.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,681 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/29166895073_e0906fda44_k.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1022 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) patrols the Philippine Sea in support of Valiant Shield 2016 on Sept. 17, 2016. (MC3 Jeanette Mullinax\/Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday\u2019s passage of the guided-missile destroyer Curtis Wilbur and guided-missile cruiser Antietam marked at least the third time this year that the Navy has sailed through the strait that separates Taiwan from mainland China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 160 kilometer (100 mile)-wide waterway is split down the middle between Taiwan and China, but there is no international law restricting civilian or military shipping from passing through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tensions between the two militaries have been high over U.S. challenges to China\u2019s claim to sovereignty over virtually the entire South China Sea. In late September, a Chinese destroyer came close to colliding with the destroyer Decatur in the South China Sea in what the U.S. Navy called an \u201cunsafe and unprofessional maneuver.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite that, contacts between the sides have endured and China gave permission last week for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2018\/11\/20\/us-navy-to-make-hong-kong-port-call-after-earlier-refusal-by-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan to dock in Hong Kong<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump and Xi are due to meet in Argentina on Saturday amid tensions over Taiwan, the South China Sea and an increasingly bitter trade war between the sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China regards Taiwan as its own territory to be brought under its control by force if necessary. 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