WASHINGTON—The U.S. military said it sent two Navy ships through the Taiwan Strait on May 22, its latest transit through the sensitive waterway, angering China at a time of tense relations between the world’s two largest economies.
Taiwan is one of a growing number of flash points in the U.S.–China relationship, which also include a bitter trade war, U.S. sanctions, and China’s increasingly muscular military posture in the South China Sea, where the United States also conducts freedom-of-navigation patrols.
