close Video USS Chancellorsville sails through Taiwan Strait in message to China The USS Chancellorsville, a guided-missile cruiser, has transited the Taiwan Strait for the first time since September.... The move is likely to irk China, which considers Taiwan a breakaway province. Two U.S. Navy warships sailed through theSouth China Sea this week, a move likely to inflame tensions in a region caught between the U.S. and China’s competing influence.... One of the multiple artificial islands in