The Defense Ministry of Taiwan reported on Wednesday that a Chinese naval fleet, led by aircraft carrier CNS Liaoning, passed through the 110-mile-wide waterway northward. It said the island's armed forces closely monitored the transit and took appropriate measures.

China is rapidly expanding its aircraft carrier fleet to enhance its influence in the Indo-Pacific region. Starting with the refurbished Soviet-era carrier Liaoning, commissioned in 2012, China launched its first domestically built carrier,

The United States and China are on a potential collision course, with U.S. military strategy heavily reliant on aircraft carriers as a central force in the Indo-Pacific.' -China is aware of this reliance and has developed advanced missile and hypersonic weapon systems specifically designed to target and neutralize these carriers,