Outstanding! The US Navy and Air Force should be conducting routine flyovers and “sail-bys” in the region in international airspace and waters.Taiwan is an independent and sovereign nation and those artificial islands that the Butchers of Beijing are building in the South China Sea have no legal status and therefore we can fly over them and sail by them at will.
Back in late 50s, early 60s, transiting the ‘Taiwan Straits’ would earn one an AFEM (Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal) as it was considered a ‘war zone’ (well maybe could get hot).
Dependent on where you were coming from (Subic Bay?) to Hong Kong, you had to transit the Straits.
Oh, nice headline 2 WARSHIPS.... guess it sounds better than saying a tanker & a Destroyer passed through the area.<: <: <: