The destroyer USS Zhong Yun passed through the Taiwan Strait on the 5th.

(The picture is taken from Facebook "USS CHUNG-HOON (DDG 93)")

[Reporter Wu Shuwei/Taipei Report] The Seventh Fleet of the U.S. Navy announced last night that the Burke-class Aegis destroyer "Zhong Yun" (USS Chung-Hoon, DDG-93) passed through the Taiwan Strait yesterday (5th) routinely. It is a high seas voyage in compliance with international law; this is also the first public record for a US warship to pass through the Taiwan Strait this year.

The Seventh Fleet pointed out that the passage of the Zhong Yun through the Taiwan Strait was through waters "beyond the territorial waters of coastal countries". Fly, sail and act anywhere permitted.

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According to the public records of the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Navy passed a total of eight warships through the Taiwan Strait last year. The eighth time was on September 20 last year when the U.S. Navy’s Burke-class Aegis destroyer "Higgins" and the Canadian Navy frigate "Vancouver "Taiwan Strait" together.

In addition, according to foreign media reports, a U.S. warship passed through the Taiwan Strait in early November last year, but it was the eve of the Sino-U.S. The message of the warship passing through the Taiwan Strait.

It is worth mentioning that the "Zhong Yun" that passed through the Taiwan Strait this time is the first destroyer of the US Navy to be named after a Chinese American. Zhong Yun (Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon, 1910-1979) was born and raised in Hawaii, USA , with a quarter of Chinese descent, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1934, served as the captain of the U.S. Navy destroyer during World War II, received the Navy Cross and Silver Star for his bravery, and finally became a major general in 1959 Retired and later served as Secretary of Agriculture of the State of Hawaii.

U.S. Navy Seventh Fleet Facebook post:

Officers of the Zhong Yun are on duty on the bridge.

(Taken from the U.S. Seventh Fleet website)

The destroyer USS Zhong Yun passed through the Taiwan Strait on the 5th.

(Taken from the U.S. Seventh Fleet website)