TAIPEI: A United States destroyer and a Canadian frigate sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday in the latest joint operation aimed at reinforcing the route's status as an international waterway.

Beijing views as its own both democratic Taiwan and the narrow body of water separating the self-ruling island from mainland China which is one of the world's busiest shipping channels.

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