China backtracks over no-fly zone near Taiwan
Beijing reduces planned three-day closure that coincided with G7 summit in Japan to just 27 minutes
China backtracked on Wednesday over plans to block some of the world’s busiest airspace near Taiwan, in a rare move that caused confusion over Beijing’s handling of its stand-off with Taipei and Washington.
That window of time would have coincided with the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Nagano, Japan, which starts on April 16. US secretary of state Antony Blinken would have needed to travel through the no-fly zone to reach the summit from Vietnam, which he is due to visit this weekend.
Two people familiar with procedures for temporary airspace closures owing to satellite launches said such stoppages extended for a few hours at most in the past.
This explains why South Korea always gets shafted, they aren't actually part of the club.
Perhaps, and I’m just speculating, but the USG is discovering it doesn’t have a monopoly on sabotage missions in foreign countries?
sure ”backtracks“, Anglo American mouthpieces, so pathetic, ever eager to see a China collapse in everything.
Which reminds me that Katherine from "Katherine's Journey to the East" is back on the market.I'm just going to share a few channels that may or may not have anything to do with the topic we may or may not be talking about.
Can't elaborate too much. You understand.
Taiwan aware of recent French warship Taiwan Strait transit
Taipei, April 12 (CNA) Taiwan's military is aware of the recent Taiwan Strait transit by a French warship, a senior official said Wednesday, after local and international media reported the rare transit by a Naval vessel from the European country.
Without identifying the ship, General Yen Yu-hsien (顏有賢) under the defense ministry's Office of Deputy Chief of the General Staff for Intelligence confirmed a French warship did make a passage through the waterway that separates Taiwan and China from south to north recently.
Yen's remarks partially confirmed the passage made by Prairial, a Floréal-class surveillance frigate of the French Navy, reportedly made from late April 9 to early April 10, according to Taiwan-based Chinese-language online news site RWMedia early Wednesday.
Wow!!!! bro China 2023 GDP projection is greater than the whole G7 plus SK and Australia.
They call it intelligence gathering when they do it . Only China spys.It's not spying, it's called "transparency" and "holding the government accountable".
It doesn't sound like a good thing.