The U.S. Navy has released a video of what it called an "unsafe interaction" in the Taiwan Strait, in which a Chinese warship crossed in front of a U.S. destroyer in the sensitive waterway, a risky incident amid deteriorating Sino-U.S. ties.

The US navy said two cruisers, the USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville, had passed through waters ‘beyond the territorial sea of any coastal state’. The People’s Liberation Army described the trip by the Ticonderoga-class cruisers as “showing off”.