Report on U.S.-China Competition in East, South China Sea https://news.usni.org/2021/08/10/report-on-u-s-china-competition-in-east-south-china-sea-9?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=a13aadeb6a-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-a13aadeb6a-230377553&mc_cid=a13aadeb6a&mc_eid=c8807e97f8
Some of us aren't cool enough to know what that is.
Ping.
“Yankee Station (officially Point Yankee) was a fixed coordinate off the coast of Vietnam where U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and support ships loitered in open waters over a nine-year period during the Vietnam War. The location was used primarily by aircraft carriers of Task Force 77 to launch strikes over North Vietnam. While the coordinate’s official designation was “Point Yankee”, it was universally referred to as Yankee Station. Carriers conducting air operations at Yankee Station were said to be “on the line” (in combat) and statistical summaries were based on days on the line. Yankee Station was initially located at 16° 00′ N, 110° 00′ E,[1] however with a massive increase in operations over North Vietnam in 1966 the station was moved about 145 miles (230 km) northwest to 17° 30′ N, 108° 30′ E,[2] placing it about 90 miles (145 km) from the North Vietnamese shore.”
Placing aircraft carriers in a location where they can be easily found in today’s threat environment would be, to say the least, not sound military thinking. Vietnam didn’t have subs, but China has about seventy of them. Also, China can launch long range antiship missiles and deliver mines from a variety of an estimated 1,000 dual use “civilian” ships.
I fear that there is little in the LEFT to restrain Biden’s fecklessness in ‘simplifying’ foreign relations as he just demonstrated with the Afghanistan fiasco. Thus, so long as Peoples Republic of China (PRC) maintains commercial operations, Joe would likely have little objection to the PRC ‘reabsorbing’ its lost island of Taiwan. It would be to his advantage in reducing the number of memory cells he has to use.
Its impact on Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore and Australia can be trusted to his crack(ed) staff, Cabinet, (woke) Military and associates in the CCP revenue stream. After all, it is likely that this will be a net positive on the Biden Administration’s top international goal, ‘Climate Uncertainty’! Why, Joe could even get his very own Piece Prize out of this!
With Xoe Xiden puppet of Xi usurping power Taiwan is sadly ikely on her own.