Posted on 06/20/2022 2:26:10 PM PDT by BusterDog
Beijing is further tightening its fist around Taiwan – insisting that international law does not apply to the Taiwan Strait.
This is despite China being a signatory to criteria established under the International Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which says it is.
Washington is not a signatory to the convention. But it asserts its validity as part of an international “rules-based order”.
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Why is INCLOS, UNCLOS?...
Yeah, bow down to the Chinese. Always works… Neville.
My father was on a mine sweeper cleaning up the mess in the Formosa Strait in September of 1945.
” Just go around. “
The USN will conduct Freedom of Navigation transits without regard to what China says.
And China dare not shoot.
> And China dare not shoot.
They use “fishing boats” and ramming tactics.
So f-ing close it! You pay Joe and his crime family enough money, that he’ll never do anything about it anyway.
I am certainly no naval expert, but given how aggressive they now are it would not surprise me if the next step, once the Chinese have enough warships, is to station them at each end of the straits and dare international naval vessels to pass.
I went to Chiang Kai-shek’s summer house at Kaohsiung in 1966.
In other world news:
10 Chinese military aircraft entered Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone in the southwest corner on June 19th, 2022, making it the 8th day of intrusions into Taiwan’s ADIZ so far this month.
The Taiwan Strait is 100 miles wide. No way to blockage it with a couple of ships.
Yup, now that Trump is no longer President, we’re headed for a shooting war with the Chinese. Our surrender in Afghanistan has emboldened all the bad actors to kick our a$$.
Red China wants no chips from Taiwan? That looks like a good way to get no chips from Taiwan.
They will back off when our Navy begins using the proper pronouns they prefer.
“My father was on a mine sweeper cleaning up the mess in the Formosa Strait in September of 1945”.
The cleanup of mines after the war took tremendous effort. Your Dad and his mates did a great job.
B-29s alone dropped thousands of mines around Japan.
The Butchers of Beijing know that they own The Big Guy...*and* his puppet masters. They know they have nothing to fear.
“I went to Chiang Kai-shek’s summer house at Kaohsiung in 1966.”
I went to their place in Taipei in the 90’s.
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