The Taiwanese Defense Ministry said that eight Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) warplanes came close to Taiwan’s contiguous zone, which extends 24 nautical miles off the island’s coast.
Since then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) visited Taiwan in August, PLA warplanes have regularly crossed the median line, an informal barrier that separates the two sides of the Taiwan Strait that the PLA used to avoid. But there have been no reports of Chinese aircraft entering Taiwan’s contiguous zone.
The Taiwanese Defense Ministry wrote on Twitter that Taiwan’s “Armed Forces detected 19 PLA aircraft (including J-10, J-16, etc.), eight of which crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and approached the 24-nautical-mile line.”
China has kept up the military pressure on Taiwan as the US has continued to increase support for Taipei, including the deployment of about 200 US troops to the island, the largest-known US military presence in Taiwan since 1979.
Taiwanese Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said earlier this year that China will use Taiwan’s growing military and diplomatic ties as an excuse to fly closer to the island. Chiu expected the PLA to enter the contiguous zone if House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) visited Taiwan.
McCarthy ended up hosting Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in California in April instead of traveling to Taiwan. The meeting provoked major Chinese military exercises around Taiwan, but they were not as extensive as the drills launched by the PLA in response to the Pelosi visit.
Chiu said that if PLA warplanes enter the contiguous zone, Taipei would “restrain ourselves from launching the first strike to avoid giving China an excuse to attack Taiwan.” But if Chinese aircraft enter Taiwan’s airspace, which extends 12 nautical miles from its coast, Chiu said Taiwanese forces would respond.
“We would be forced to respond should Chinese military vessels and aircraft come near or enter the nation’s airspace and territorial waters, even if they are in disputed areas,” he said.
If official US policy is that there is one China, then the 24-mile zone around Taiwan is officially China’s 24 miles zone. Right? Would anybody consider is newsworthy to report that US military aircraft crossed Hawaii’s contiguous zone?
“If official US policy is that there is one China, then the 24-mile zone around Taiwan is officially China’s 24 miles zone.”
“There is one China” and “Taiwan is part of China” are two entirely different statements.
“”There is one China” and “Taiwan is part of China” are two entirely different statements.”
As if Taiwanese Are Not Chinese…!
The majority of Taiwanese are of at least partially Chinese ancestry.
The same could be said of any number of other countries in relation to each other.
That doesn’t make a geographically distinct island which hasn’t been ruled from Beijing for nearly 130 years “part of China.”
Aborigines are not Chinese, and they number about as many as the Aborigines in Australia, as a percentage of the total population.
Joint Communiqué switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing. In the Joint Communiqué, the United States recognized the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government of China, acknowledging the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China
Correct. The US policy “acknowledges the People’s Republic of China’s position” that Taiwan is a province of the PRC.
It does not now, and never has, claimed to share that position.
sole legal government recognition did just that, in the context of Taiwan in the communique. Acknowledgement means agreement. We have always recognized Taiwan and China as the same country, even from 1949 to 1979 when we recognized One
China with Taipei as the seat of Government of all of China.
Acknowledging that you hold a particular position is not the same thing as agreeing with that position. And as the Taiwan Relations Act and the “Six Assurances” make clear, at no point has the US indicated agreement with the PRC’s position.
More double think.
US policy does not recognize the CCP as the government in Taiwan. US policy only “recognizes that the CCP says taiwan is part of china”.
Yes. But that policy makes about as much sense as the notion that Hawaii or Puerto Rico are part of, but not subject to the U.S. … or as Lily Sandoz says in these comments: “double think”.
The US position isn’t that Taiwan is “part of, but not subject to” China.
The US position is that there is “one China,” and that it “acknowledges” that the PRC considers Taiwan part of China. Acknowledging the PRC’s position is not the same thing as agreeing with that position.
And while the US does not come right out and say that it DIS-agrees with the PRC’s “acknowledged” position, the US DOES come right out and say (in the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 and in the subsequent “Six Assurances”) that it will continue to sell arms, etc. to Taiwan as it damn well pleases.
I thought this was interesting because it is an original document from Nixon’s 1972 visit to China. The Shanghai Communique expresses this view of Taiwan.
The Government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal government of China; Taiwan is a province of China which has long been returned to the motherland; the liberation of Taiwan is China’s internal affair in which no other country has the right to interfere; and all US forces and military installations must be withdrawn from Taiwan. The Chinese Government firmly opposes any activities which aim at the creation of “one China, one Taiwan”, “one China, two governments”, “two Chinas”, an “independent Taiwan” or advocate that “the status of Taiwan remains to be determined”.
http://www.china.org.cn/english/china-us/26012.htm
You must be incredibly dense. Can you read?
I, nor anyone else, ever claimed taiwan was “part of, but not subject to” china. It’s like you’re talking to a wall that you think is me.
America’s policy in regards to taiwan is that america recognizes that china thinks taiwan is part of china. America does not in any way claim that it agrees.
If china insisted the sky was orange, and america said “we recognize that china thinks the sky is orange”, does that mean that america also thinks the sky is orange?
apparently, to people whose reading comprehension is as low as yours, the answer is yes.
grow up
You might want to consider what the US Secretary of State has to say.
https://youtu.be/FQwoQnsiVOk
PRC Law on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone here
“Since then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) visited Taiwan in August, PLA warplanes have regularly crossed the median line, an informal barrier that separates the two sides of the Taiwan Strait that the PLA used to avoid. But there have been no reports of Chinese aircraft entering Taiwan’s contiguous zone.”
The gift that keeps on giving.
Here’s the kicker: If there is only one China, then why are the Chinese not allowed to go where they want? Seems like more double think. But, nobody ever said governments run on reason.
Will Taiwan be another patsy and fall guy for the empire’s ambitions as Ukraine is right now? Looks that way.
You must mean the Chinese empire.Yes,war is peace.
We have an “informal” Southern Border too under the Far Left’s policies.
*yawn*
Blinken tells China that “the US does not support Taiwan independence”
https://disq.us/url?url=htt…
Blinken is FOS…!
The US State Department told Asian countries that “we stand by our commitments”, shortly before abrogating the Taiwan-US Mutual Defense Treaty in 1979, too.