The PLA Eastern Theater Command said Japan's destroyer JS Ikazuchi transited the Taiwan Strait on April 17 and that Chinese naval and air forces tracked and monitored the vessel throughout the process. China's defense ministry later called the move a "deliberate provocation" and said it had lodged a strong protest with Japan. #worldnow

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