Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis
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I'm not suggesting anyone do anything.
I just think it would be hugely humiliating for China if the US sails warships down the straight in a few days time.
Is this the DF-27(DF-26 HGV)?
Only if there's more and larger US ships than Chinese ships shadowing them, otherwise it'll be kinda humiliating for the US side.
Remember the China straits are misleading named, its not an actual enclosed strait like Gibraltar or Bosphorus, it's more of a channel like the British channel. Ships can transit through according to international law as long as they don't touch either sides of the PRC around the straits.
This is such B.S. We saw video footage of a Su-30 basically 20KM off the coast with no accompanying interceptor. They should just stop lying.
I understand that, and maybe you're right. If the US is not going to send an aircraft carrier then maybe it is them that look humiliated.
But in just a few days!
I don't think any laws or rules or norms come into it at this point - not that the US has any continuity of its own in that regard anyway.
No, something has changed: it'll be escorted by a massive show of force that wasn't possible in 1996, just like it did in the SCS with a smaller show of force.
That's actually US propaganda. The US announced sailing their ships toward China near the end of the exist knowing that by the time they got there, the exercise would have ended to make it look like they were scared of the carriers.
But according to Chinese military, the carrier groups weren't anywhere else the Taiwan strait at that time and they only send a spy ship off the coast.
The carriers came much later.
China just closed communications channels with the U.S. military. It is highly risky to conduct a freedom of passage trip so close to the mainland.
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