The Chinese military on Wednesday accused the US of “deliberately intensifying tensions” by sailing a warship through the Taiwan Strait.
According to the US Navy’s Seventh Fleet, the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal passed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday. On the same day, a Chinese attack helicopter flew slightly across the median line, which separates the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
“The United States frequently stages such dramas and provokes trouble, sending wrong signals to Taiwan independence forces, and deliberately intensifying tensions across the Taiwan Strait,” China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said in a statement.
The US sends a warship through the Taiwan Strait at about a monthly rate, and the provocations always draw condemnation from Beijing. The last time a US warship made the provocative passage was on April 26.
The latest transit comes as tensions are high between the US and China over Washington’s increasing support for Taipei. On Tuesday, China rebuked the US after the State Department changed the wording of its Taiwan fact sheet, removing a line that said the US doesn’t support the island’s independence.
Can you, or anyone believe that with this dangerous tension and trouble, that the U.S. would do anything to inflame China? And give them iron clad reason to join Russia in any confrontation that may occur and thereby put the U.S. NATO aggressors in a dangerous bind. I do not want to think or ventute any possible moves that would bring the curtain )down on the U.S. NATO hegemony, but quite a few come to mind like kill one of the chickens for the monkey to behold. It’s all so god damned dangerous. Maybe just let what is going on now run its course and see where things stand after. The Ukies are the ones getting butchered. Maybe just hope one of them decides it’s enough and runs up the white flag just a bit before the whole place is leveled????
Very well said…!
“The United States frequently stages such dramas and provokes trouble, sending wrong signals to Taiwan independence forces, and deliberately intensifying tensions across the Taiwan Strait,” China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said in a statement.
Yes. And that’s just in that part of the world. We are an equal opportunity troublemaker and have spread our provocations worldwide.
It’s a provocation. Clearly. China might as well play along .
Sounds like the right message. You invade Taiwan, this is what you will face. We aren’t the only aggressors in the world. China has been busy the past 20 years, and not working towards peace or preserving world order. How they treat their own citizens, minorities and other countries is in large part exactly why Taiwan wanted independence to begin with.