The Chinese navy is conducting drills in the Yellow Sea after the US held joint naval exercises in the waters off northern China with Canada and South Korea.
The US drills were carried out last week and included an amphibious ready group led by the USS America, an amphibious assault ship that can carry certain types of aircraft, including F-35 fighter jets. According to The South China Morning Post, the drills marked the largest US show of force in the Yellow Sea in 10 years.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry said the warships drilled on tactical maneuvers and helicopter operations. After the exercises, the warships sailed to Incheon, a city on South Korea’s west coast, to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the Korean War battle of Incheon.
While done in the name of countering North Korea, the drills in the Yellow Sea came amid a US military buildup in the Asia Pacific that’s explicitly aimed at China. Tensions are soaring between the US and Beijing due to the increased US military activity in other waters near China, including the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait.
Analysts told the Post that China’s drills in the Yellow Sea were a “tit-for-tat” move. Chinese authorities announced two separate drills, taking place in the northern Yellow Sea near the Bohai Strait. One set of exercises took place from September 18-19, while the other started on September 17 and will conclude on September 24.
Global Times, a Chinese state English language media outlet, slammed the US drills in the Yellow Sea, saying it was part of a strategy to encircle China.
“The US is changing its 10-year low-key manner in the Yellow Sea, demonstrating that it is integrating all the forces it can use in the Northeast Asia region, the East China Sea, the Taiwan Straits and the South China Sea into a unified chain to contain China under its framework of Indo-Pacific Strategy,” wrote Global Times contributor Li Nan.
Somehow I get the feeling that is the beginning of more then posturing by the US in what is Chinas sphere of influence and back yard.. This can not have a happy ending. Too much is at stake.It appears that the hawks in the Pentagon are arming the Japanese and Australia in which looks to me like a battle for military supremacy in the waters around China.
So Much AGGRESSION from China to ATTACK THE YELLOW SEA!!! I’M OUTRAGED!!! But, forgive me. Like math, Geography escapes me. Help me read the map included in the article? What is the name of that country on the left side of the Yellow Sea? …No way that’s all that China–right? (Sarcasm)
Joe Biden can see Beijing from his front porch…
On China, the US is again lying itself into the next war. In recent Congressional testimony the government representatives say “The [Defense] Department remains committed to abiding by the well-established one China policy of the United States” and “this Administration opposes any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side of the Strait. We have not supported Taiwan independence, we do not support it now.”
But actually the US is supporting declared Taiwan independence from China, while Taiwan is calling its independent government the “Republic of China” which is a violation of the “one China” claim. The US also admits that the real reason for this attention to China’s internal matters is to sustain anti-China barriers in the off-shore China region: “Taiwan is located at a critical node within the First Island Chain in the Indo-Pacific region.” More detailed information on the coming anti-China next war is recent testimony in the House Armed Services Committee here and here.
“The Yellow Sea”
hilarious. is it next to “The Black Sea” ?
omg is there as much plastic bottle trash in “The Yellow Sea” as there is in the “Pacific Ocean” ? what.
edit = OMG look at that tiny island over there = Jeju all on it’s own in the middle of nowhere. poor dudes in the middle of nowhere with nobody to protect them -> except they can rest assured that there is an uncle sam military base right in the middle of downtown Jeju city. am i right?
or am i right.
edit #2 = OMG look at that river all by itself = the “Huang He” River.
you couldn’t make this sh*t up.
what.