A U.S. Navy patrol aircraft transited the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday "in international airspace", the U.S. 7th Fleet said in a statement, adding that it demonstrated the United States' commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific.

Poland is pushing Nordic and Baltic states to patrol their waters jointly against any Russian sabotage attempts, following the suspicious severing of two data cables last week. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday he was seeking to convince Baltic Sea countries that they share “the same sense of threat when it comes to Russia” to set up a “navy policing” force that would mirror Nato’s Baltic air patrols.