Guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell ( DDG 85)
USNS Walter S. Diehl (T-AO-193)
USNS Walter S. Diehl (T-AO-193)
Outstanding! The US Navy and Air Force should be conducting routine flyovers and “sail-bys” in the region in international airspace and waters.Taiwan is an independent and sovereign nation and those artificial islands that the Butchers of Beijing are building in the South China Sea have no legal status and therefore we can fly over them and sail by them at will.
China, which considers Taiwan its own >>>>>
You mean just like China considers Chinatown in San Francisco and the Gold Coast in Australia their own.
They can take their Peking Duck back to Shanghai and take it for a long walk off a short pier.
So much for China’s “hegemony!”
FREE TIBET!
Which Leftist publication will be the first to use the term “gunboat diplomacy?” The New York Times has to be the clear favorite. Washington Post is only contender with a chance.
Thank you for posting the images of both vessels and the map, csvset!
Has any US Warship ever passed through this straight before?
Taiwan Strait Patrol was fun in ‘69, ‘70 and ‘71 because it meant liberty in Keelung or Kaosiung. Usually just us and another tin can. By the way, I thought the USNS ships had no guns. Not much of a warship, is it?