China is threatening to close the Taiwan Strait

Australian News ^ | 6/20/22

[BusterDog]

Gotta go around now. Just go around. Not through. Around.

[EEGator]

Why is INCLOS, UNCLOS?...

[datura]

Yeah, bow down to the Chinese. Always works… Neville.

[Rebelbase]

My father was on a mine sweeper cleaning up the mess in the Formosa Strait in September of 1945.

[Mariner]

” Just go around. “

The USN will conduct Freedom of Navigation transits without regard to what China says.

And China dare not shoot.

[glorgau]

> And China dare not shoot.

They use “fishing boats” and ramming tactics.

[mass55th]

So f-ing close it! You pay Joe and his crime family enough money, that he’ll never do anything about it anyway.

[untenured]

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.

[blam]

China, US Escalate Over Legal Status Of Taiwan Strait After Beijing Rejects It As “International Waters”

[blam]

I went to Chiang Kai-shek’s summer house at Kaohsiung in 1966.

[C210N]

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.

[Savage Beast]

"We dare not tempt them with our weakness."
John Kennedy
President of the United States

[Flick Lives]

The Taiwan Strait is 100 miles wide. No way to blockage it with a couple of ships.

[Cobra64]

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$$.

[Dr. Sivana]

Red China wants no chips from Taiwan? That looks like a good way to get no chips from Taiwan.

[PIF]

They will back off when our Navy begins using the proper pronouns they prefer.

[laplata]

“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.

[Gay State Conservative]

The Butchers of Beijing know that they own The Big Guy...*and* his puppet masters. They know they have nothing to fear.

[McGruff]

[ifinnegan]

“I went to Chiang Kai-shek’s summer house at Kaohsiung in 1966.”

I went to their place in Taipei in the 90’s.