For the first time in 22 years, two German warships passed through the Taiwan Strait on Friday. The frigate „Baden-Wuerttemberg“ and its supply ship, the „Frankfurt am Main,“ navigated on their way from South Korea to the Philippines through the Strait between the democratic island republic of Taiwan and the Chinese province of Fujian. Officially because it was the shortest route, said German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius on Friday. „It’s the shortest route and, given the weather conditions, the safest, so we’re going through,“ said the minister. Chancellor Scholz also appeared demonstratively calm. There is not much to say about the passage of ships, he said. „It’s an international waterway,“ he said at a press conference in Berlin.