Canadian and Australian warships transit Taiwan Strait, whines China's state-run media

The US Navy and occasionally ships from allied countries like Canada, Britain and France transit the strait, which they consider an international waterway, around once a month.

Taiwan also considers it an international waterway. China, which claims Taiwan as its own, says the strategic waterway is part of its territorial waters.

(Reporting by James Pomfret in Hong Kong and Ben Blanchard in Taipei; Editing by Tom Hogue)