A US and Canadian warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, a transit condemned by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
The US Navy’s Seventh Fleet said the guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson made the transit along with the Canadian frigate HMCS Ottawa. “The ships transited through a corridor in the strait that is beyond the territorial sea of any coastal state,” the Seventh Fleet said.
US transits of the Taiwan Strait are common, but they are vehemently opposed by China. In recent years, Canada has been frequently joining the US in its Taiwan Strait provocations, and the US Coast Guard has also appeared in the sensitive waterway.
A spokesman for the PLA said the US and Canada “hyped up” their latest Taiwan Strait transit and that Chinese troops were on high alert in response. “The Eastern Theatre Command of China’s PLA organized naval and air forces to trail their entire course and stand alert in accordance with laws and regulations,” said Col. Shi Yi.
“Troops in the theatre remain on constant high alert, and will resolutely protect national sovereignty and security as well as regional peace and stability,” Shi added.
On Monday, a Chinese aircraft carrier sailed about 60 nautical miles to the south of Taiwan, a move Taiwanese analysts told The South China Morning Post was a response to the US and Canadian transit through the Strait and other US military activity in the region. The warship, the Shandong, was joined by more than a dozen PLA aircraft.
China has significantly stepped up its military activity around Taiwan since then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a provocative visit to the island in August 2022. China’s increasing pressure on Taiwan is a direct response to the growing diplomatic and military ties between the US and Taiwan, which Beijing views as a violation of Washington’s one-China policy.
Why would Canada want to have hostilities with China. China doesn’t really threaten Canada in any way, so why would Canada wanna get on China’s target list. Canada with no nukes and no discernible serious problems with China must be BARKING CRAZY to hector China and risk getting one of its cities flattened. Are they SO STUPID THAT THEY WOULD STICK THEIR HEADS IN THE LIONS MOUTH??? IT SEEMS THAT’S THEIR REALITY!!!
There is no risk of Canada getting flattened, because the Chinese aren’t drooling morons who would waste a nuke on a non-nuclear minor power, knowing that that minor power’s patron would take out a major Chinese city in retaliation.
Who’s the one who’s BARKING CRAZY with their all caps screaming about nuclear war?
Kissing the ass of the US can be dangerous for your health. Ukraine has learned this the hard way.
Canada has kissed the ass of the US for decades. PM Trudeau Sr. “Living next to you (the US) is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No
matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it
that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”
Because Canada is demonstrating its subservience to its US master. And please don’t forget who is at present Canada’s Deputy P.M. The US has controlled Canada’s military and foreign policy since Diefenbaker in the 1950s.
Poking the Dragon.
Murka and Canada would do well to recall that dragons BREATHE FIRE.
I find it appropriate that Murka’s national symbol is a carrion-eater, picking the bones of the dead and dying.
But perhaps Ben Franklin was correct; he nominated the wild turkey as the national bird, and Boy Howdy, are we ever a turkey of a nation.
Xi apparently had some fire breathed on him recently by party elders.
As with US politics, Chinese foreign policy seems to be largely dictated by domestic concerns. The question is whether 20% youth unemployment and an otherwise teetering economy ends up meaning “seek a foreign military distraction” or “take care of business at home instead of f*cking around abroad.”
Anyone with a functioning noodle knows the answer to your question. No cabe duda,not a fucking doubt
And the “Maple Leaf” is just something to be burned in autumn
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Out of the whole Pacific Ocean, they chose that route to ratchet up the tensions?
They are not bright just getting desperate as China becomes more powerful. They see their whole schtick going up in smoke.
posturing
Canada rivals with Australia as the greasiest imperial vassal. Pierre Trudeau was a statesman. His son is a moral pygmy.