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Military said on Sunday.

At a time when tensions between China and Taiwan are raising concern in Washington just days into US President Joe Biden's administration, which says its commitment to Taiwan is rock solid, the carriers entered the South China Sea on Saturday, the same day Taiwan reported a large incursion of Chinese bombers and fighter jets into its airspace in the vicinity of the protests islands.

The U.

S military said its carriers, led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt, were conducting routine operations.

Quote to ensure freedom of the seas, Taipei reported more Chinese incursions on Sunday.

China views democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory and has in the past few months increased military activity near the island.

But this weekend marked an escalation China dispatched fighters and bombers rather than reconnaissance aircraft, has had generally being the case.

Beijing has not yet commented.