The USS Sampson DDG 102 passed through the Taiwan Strait yesterday (26th).Flip the US Navy website
(Reporter Wang Jionghua/Taipei Report) The USS Sampson DDG 102 passed through the Taiwan Strait yesterday (26th), and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army warship also followed the Sampson along the middle line of the strait. West through the Taiwan Strait. The Ministry of National Defense also dispatched the Navy’s Strait Reconnaissance Cruisers to monitor the passage of U.S. and Chinese warships east of the central line of the Strait. The Ministry of National Defense confirmed today (27) that a US destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait from south to north. During the passage through the Taiwan Strait, the national army was able to grasp the relevant dynamics of the surrounding sea and airspace throughout the whole process, and the situation was normal.
Regarding the U.S. Buck-class guided missile destroyer USS Sampson (USS Sampson DDG 102) passing through the Taiwan Strait yesterday, the Seventh Fleet of the U.S. Navy stated that this was a routine voyage in international waters in accordance with international law. The Seventh Fleet emphasized that the USS Sampson sailed through the Taiwan Strait to demonstrate the United States’ commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific region.
Sampson is part of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln strike group, which includes the guided missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay, the Navy’s 9th Carrier Air Wing Nine, guided missile destroyers USS Fitzgerald, USS Gridley, USS Sampson and USS Spruance ). The USS Lincoln strike group conducted joint exercises with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force in the Philippine Sea and the East China Sea on the 18th.