Posted on 01/25/2017 3:08:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Hong Kong said on Tuesday it would release the nine Singaporean armored vehicles it seized in November on their way home from military exercises in Taiwan, easing tensions between China and Singapore.
After the troop carriers had been seized, Beijing, which regained sovereignty over the former British colony of Hong Kong in 1997, warned countries against maintaining military ties with Taiwan, which it views as a wayward province.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong wrote to Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying requesting the return of the carriers, and Hong Kong said it would handle the matter in accordance with its laws.
The seizure came amid signs of tension between China and Singapore, which has deepened its security relationship with the United States over the last year and remains concerned over China's assertive territorial stance in the South China Sea.
Since then, Beijing has been unsettled by U.S. President Donald Trump's statement, made in December before his inauguration, that the United States did not necessarily have to stick to its long-standing position that Taiwan is part of "one China"....
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I see China is making friends and showing what a good neighbor they are.
I would have to ask what idiot routed them by that path? That is like an Israeli making a stopover in Saudi Arabia. You just don’t know how that might work out.
Maybe they were seized on the high seas?
India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Russia now, then potentially South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.
I’ve been reading too many history books lately.
I couldn’t understand for a moment why the British seized them.
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