Posted on 10/15/2020 9:51:04 AM PDT by blam
China has again put its military in a “high state of alert” after two US Navy warships recently sailed through the Taiwan Strait. Late last week the US destroyer John McCain sailed near the disputed Paracel Islands administered and militarized by China, upon which the PLA military warned the US to “halt its provocations”.
The latest incident was Wednesday, when the Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry passed through the strait. Washington was quick to emphasize that it was a “routine transit” like others toward the purpose of peaceful ‘freedom of navigation’ operations, while Beijing once again denounced the “trouble-stirring statements and moves”.
USS Barry (DDG 52) transits waters of the Taiwan Strait, Oct. 14, 2020. Via US Navy
State-backed Global Times said the USS Barry transit resulted in assets from China’s Eastern Theater Command being mobilized. It “organized naval and air forces and tracked and monitored the USS Barry destroyer for the entire course when the U.S. warship sailed through the Taiwan Straits on Wednesday,” according to GT.
The PLA’s Senior Colonel Zhang Chunhui said: “We sternly urge the U.S. to stop making trouble-stirring statements and moves. The command forces are always on high alert in resolutely safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits.”
These latest tensions based on US presence in the contested sea lanes cased the PLA military to be put on alert. While this is nothing new Chinese President Xi Jinping’s language has grown more threatening in referencing talk of war.
Via BBC
While touring a military base at Chaozhou City in the southern province of Guangdong Xi is reported to have told the elite troops to “maintain a state of high alert”
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Does not sound like a man who expects Biden to win.
Bad translation, when they found out it was the McCain he said, “Prepare for collision”.
So in other words: “Deal with it, China! You don’t have to like it.”
Poor little China. It’s leaders seem to think their nation
can’t protect itself from one ship of this class.
Pathetic. You really have to wonder if it’s leaders are
weened yet?
Election tampering.
Ohhhh, good point.
Accompanied by the usual threat to launch an invasion of Taiwan, R.O.C.
But can the red dragon swim?
Legally it’s the same as the middle of the Pacific. It’s not inside the territorial waters of either nation. So the new story should read that they’re angry that the American warship operated in international waters.
“ Accompanied by the usual threat to launch an invasion of Taiwan, R.O.C.
But can the red dragon swim?”
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No, I don’t believe the Red Dragon can swim metaphorically or otherwise.
The PRC elite forces would not be a serious match for Taiwan’s elite special op’s forces.
If you've ever been in the Pacific Ocean, you know how absolutely massive it is. You'll also understand why my jaw dropped when I read the article below.
Huge Underground Reservoir Holds Three Times As Much Water As Earth’s Oceans
The US, Britain, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India, Philippines, Vietnam and South Korea need to put a permanent surface and submarine fleet in the South China sea and keep a permanent presence. If China decides to get crazy they are a trip wire and give us some warning time, plus they are guns, torpedoes and missiles already on the scene and not having to race to get to a hot spot and can buy us precious time in a fight with the chicoms. This permanent allied fleet also is a thorn in the dragons side much like a similar fleet was to Imperial Japan in the 1930’s far east.
You know, eventually we’ll need to nuke them.
America missed a golden opportunity the day after 9/11.
We should have used 1950s style citybuster H-bombs on Mecca, and Riyadh.
The world would be a much better place today. And jaskassery like China would be seriously curtailed. We shoulda done it.
A few cruise missiles would be sufficient to obliterate the Ka’aba and destroy the Grand Mosque, thus cutting the heart out of Islam. Could have been done in the wake of 9/11.
Peking, Shanghai and Canton need to be turned into Dresden’s of WWII. Then maybe the CCP will think twice about starting wars.
in before the first mention of winnie the pooh
Thereby giving every US or Allied Sigint and Elint collector in the theater of operations a hugh woody.
Blow up their dams and use EMP to fry their grid.
Once the CCP has to worry about keeping 1.5 billion people fed they’ll have little spare time for mischief.
Both the Air Force and the Navy have a long history of trolling enemy forces for ELINT, and that is how it is done.
The Army always used 96R GSRs, or pop-up targets as we affectionately called them. Hit the radar, and then run like heck before counter battery got you.
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