FILE - In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, China's third conventionally powered aircraft carrier, the Fujian, conducts a maiden sea trial on May 7, 2024. (Ding Ziyu/Xinhua via AP, File)
In this image taken from video by Taiwan's SET TV, soldiers look out from the mounted machine gun on top of an armored vehicle during combat readiness exercises in Taoyuan, Taiwan on Monday, June 22, 2026. (SET TV via AP)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China’s newest and most powerful of its three aircraft carriers sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the Taiwanese defense ministry said, a day after Taiwan began a five-day military exercise on responding to a Chinese attack.
The Fujian carrier first sailed through the narrow body of water separating China and in a trial run It later transited the strait for the first time as a fully commissioned military vessel in December.
China claims the self-governed island as part of its territory and has not ruled out the use of force to bring it under Beijing's control. China regularly sends navy vessels and war planes towards Taiwan that have become in recent years to where they now occur almost daily.
Taiwan on Monday kicked off its own to support its response in case of a possible Chinese military invasion.
The U.S. Navy through the strait periodically, as do some of its allies, in a warning to Beijing against any attempt to use force to establish its claim to the island.
The Fujian was commissioned in November 2025. It is world’s largest nonnuclear-powered warship, according to the U.S. Naval Institute, and is considered more advanced than China's other two carriers, the Shandong and the Liaoning.
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