{"id":37227,"date":"2019-03-25T06:22:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T06:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37227"},"modified":"2019-03-25T06:22:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T06:22:16","slug":"us-sails-two-ships-through-taiwan-strait-ahead-of-trade-talks-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37227","title":{"rendered":"US sails two ships through Taiwan Strait ahead of trade talks in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The United States sailed two ships through the Taiwan Strait, Sunday, in an operation that comes as top officials from the Trump administration prepare to travel to Beijing for high-level trade talks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The US Navy destroyer, the USS Curtis Wilbur, and the US Coast Guard cutter, USCGC Bertholf, &#8220;conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit March 24-25 (local time) in accordance with international law,&#8221; the Navy&#8217;s Seventh fleet said in a statement. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;The ships&#8217; transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,&#8221; Cdr. Clay Doss, a spokesman for the Navy&#8217;s Seventh Fleet told CNN in a statement.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The United States sailed two ships through the Taiwan Strait, Sunday, in an operation that comes as top officials from the Trump administration prepare to travel to Beijing for high-level trade talks.The US Navy destroyer, the USS Curtis Wilbur, and the US Coast Guard cutter, USCGC Bertholf, &#8220;conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit March 24-25&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}