US warships traverse the strait every few months, enraging Beijing, and some US allies, such as France, Australia, Britain and Canada, have also made occasional transits. Paris said it had now become routine for G7 statements to include language on maintaining the status quo across the strait and opposing use of force or coercion.
“This is a clear message that we repeat all the time, and I think there is a good choreography between a number of G7 partners to send this message,” he added, pointing to past naval trips by Canada and the Netherlands, among others.
The last publicly confirmed sailing by a French Navy ship in the strait, a conduit for trade running into billions of dollars a year, was in 2024.
