The US sent a warship through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, a few days after China concluded live-fire exercises in the area in response to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California.
The US Navy’s Seventh Fleet said the guided-missile destroyer USS Milius made the passage. The Seventh Fleet framed the transit as “routine,” but US military activity in the Taiwan Strait angers Beijing.
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said it closely monitored and tracked the Milius as it sailed through the strait. A spokesman for the PLA’s Eastern Theater Command, which oversees Chinese military operations in the region, said its forces were on “high alert at all times” and would “resolutely” defend Chinese sovereignty.
Last week, the USS Milius stoked tensions with Beijing by sailing within 12 nautical miles of a Chinese-controlled reef in the South China Sea. Since the Obama administration, the US has conducted such passages to challenge China’s claims to the waters.
Tensions remain high in the region as the US and the Philippines are currently conducting their largest-ever joint military exercises, which include firing missiles into the South China Sea. The drills come after Washington and Manila inked a deal that expands the US military presence in the Philippines.
The US seems to have an itch it cannot scratch…
Hard to scratch when one’s head is firmly buried in one’s ass.
Good one OB1!
Well said.
If the Republicans were in power and doing the acts of the current US government, many on the left would be losing their collective over it . Hypocritical fools
Haven’t you noticed that it doesn’t make any difference which side of the duopoly occupies the White House?
True. And since the democrats are in office, it’s the opposite. Where have you been? This isn’t something new.
”US Sails Warship Through Taiwan Strait After China’s Live-Fire Drills”
What did they hope to accomplish [provoke] by waiting till after the event?
As If the idiots were hoping to get hit.
If you have no fear then you cannot be brave either.
that is some profound right there, tell you what
Appreciated – There’s nothing particularly brave about US foreign policy which needlessly, continues sending young people into harms way – Needlessly – because A the US hasn’t been attacked and B we all know that it’s really all about something else which is for the benefit of the financial elite.
Uncle Sam has the biggest dick in history. Problem is it’s too small a place to hold a thought.
This is beyond stupid.
And I am not talking about the obvious, confrontational danger involved.
China is already far outbuilding America militarily. Especially in terms of naval and air assets. Yet, they still spend far less than America does in this regard – as a percentage of GDP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures
The absolute, last thing America should be doing is provoking China to ramp up their military spending even more.
Yet this moronic stunt with probably do just that.
The Biden Whitehouse seems as senile as it’s leader.
BTW – I DESPISE, both parties.
Navy: “Our presence in the region reinforces open sea lines of communication and the rules-based international order. Our commitment to our allies and partners in the region remains ironclad as we promote a free and open Indo-Pacific.”
The US Navy hasn’t accomplished a thing in their five or six years of public relations FONOPS announcements that yet again they have accomplished freedom of navigation when in fact the hundreds of ships traversing the South China Sea every day have not been hindered from sailing to or from their ports, mostly Chinese. Here’s a current display of marine traffic in the area.
Solid point. As far as I know, China hasn’t interfered with freedom of navigation. The US Navy doesn’t get to take credit for anything in those seas. Indeed, the greatest threat to freedom of navigation may be the US preparations to close the Strait of Malacca… something that would seriously harm South Korea and Japan.
Somebody in the White House has been watching too many movies.