Taiwan: Navy

(asked on 8th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to take steps to provide naval patrols around Taiwan.


Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 15th December 2022

The UK is committed to asserting its rights to freedom of navigation and overflight, as laid out in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Wherever we operate in the world we do so in full compliance with international laws and norms. The last transit through the Taiwan Strait was carried out by the Royal Navy in 2021, when HMS Richmond (Type 23 Frigate) conducted a Taiwan Strait Navigation during CSG21 deployment en route to Vietnam.

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