Taiwan's Defense Ministry said three Chinese ships, including the aircraft carrier Shandong, passed through the Taiwan Strait on Saturday.
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A three-ship PLA (People's Liberation Army) flotilla, led by the aircraft carrier Shandong, crossed the Taiwan Strait around noon today west of the median line in a northerly direction," the ministry said in a statement, referring to the invisible border in the middle of the strait.
The aircraft carrier Shandong was commissioned in 2019: it was the second aircraft carrier of the Chinese navy, and the first to have been manufactured by the Chinese themselves.
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