Tensions continue to escalate in the Taiwan Strait as two US warships pass through the sea, in what Washington calls a "demonstration of freedom of navigation through international waters."
China views such action as provocative, and has been holding military drills in the region in retaliation to a series of visits this month by US delegations to the self-governing island democracy, which Beijing claims as its territory.
Our US Correspondent Benji Hyer has been following the ships' progress.
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