Posted on 10/04/2021 10:05:49 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
The Chinese military on Monday sent 52 military planes into Taiwan’s air defense zone — the most ever in a single day — one day after the U.S. issued a warning to Beijing over similar flights it conducted in recent days.
China has sent 145 flights into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone in the past four days, including Monday’s incursion, which was first reported by Fox News.
“The United States is very concerned by the People’s Republic of China’s provocative military activity near Taiwan, which is destabilizing, risks miscalculations, and undermines regional peace and stability,” the U.S. State Department said in a statement on Sunday evening. “We urge Beijing to cease its military, diplomatic, and economic pressure and coercion against Taiwan.”
The flights began on October 1 when 38 People’s Liberation Army aircraft flew close to southwest Taiwan before circling back as modern China celebrated the 72nd anniversary of its founding, CBS News reported. Chinese planes flew 39 more sorties the next day and another 16 flights the day after that — all following a similar path.
On Monday, the Chinese air force sent 52 aircraft, including three dozen fighter jets and a dozen bombers, according to Fox News.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has long said independence is not an option for Taiwan and has not ruled out the use of military force to reunify the island.
Taipei city spokesman and former ambassador Tom Chou told CBS News that Taiwan “is an advocate for peace in East Asia” and that the “record number of intrusions” into Taiwan’s airspace “is a serious threat to Taiwan and will destablize the status quo of peace in East Asia.”
“Taiwan plays an important role in global hi-tech supply chains, in particular semiconductor industry,” Chou added. “If the crisis is not handled properly, the world’s hi-tech supply chains will be adversely affected [and] that will further slow down the pace of the global economic recovery. This explains why the United States has come forward to tell China to stop its intrusions into Taiwan’s airspace.”
“The people of Taiwan are very grateful to the United States for extending a helping hand during this crisis,” he added.
Under the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, the U.S. must support Taiwan’s defense capabilities against China.
Joe Biden will trade Hunters art work for Taiwan. Done deal.
Of all the arguments against relying on China for our manufacturing, this might be the most persuasive.
One, an air defense ID zone is not airspace. Two, instead of whining about it, do the same exact thing in the Chinese ADIZ. Exact same number of planes etc.
The Butchers of Beijing know that they have *nothing* to fear from Harris/Biden.
反攻大陸去
to make clear that the United States decision to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China rests upon the expectation that the future of Taiwan will be determined by peaceful means;
The incursions into Taiwan's airspace is not "peaceful means" and therefore it is time to re-establish relations with the Republic of China.
I don't think the United States should break relations with Mainland China. If relations are to be broken, let China do it and suffer the consequences that entails.
Spread some volcanic ash from a few firefighting aircraft. It takes a while to float down and does a number on jet engines.
Tough to spin this into Chinese "respect" for Biden.
clock is running...
I knew I wasn’t going to be able to retire peacefully. If this war starts a lot of soldiers are going to die on some beach thousands of miles away.
I’ll support one China the day after the ChiCom and PLA elite are all swinging at the end of ropes.
Chicoms have nothing to worry about with the incompetent idiot that now occupies the WH.
China sells us a bunch of product. Our biggest export to China is food ! Pork, corn, soybeans, we need to dial that back. We also sell coal to Canada who in turn sells it to China.
The Chinese have been very interested in acquiring advanced semi-conductor production equipment, so that they can create their own advanced micro chips. I would hope, and it should be on the CIA’s radar screen that there should be a generous amount of thermite wired to the most advanced production equipment, which the Chinese have attempted to get through the EU, but so far have had no success.
Attacking Taiwan, while achieving many of China’s long term objectives, also gives the Chinese the ability to obtain, through military action, that which they’ve been unable to obtain through R&D. They are at least a decade behind the world’s dominant chip manufacturers, and have listed it as a critical military technology they need to master. This is the easy way, steal it by military force.
From
http://www.glcmumbai.com/lawreview/volume9/03JoshuaAbhayPatnigere.pdf
"E. Differentiating between an ADIZ and the national airspace of a State International law stipulates that national airspace of a State extends to the territory above it and throughout the airspace above the territorial sea, which may extend up to 12 nm off its coast. This defined rule puts to rest all confusions relating to how far the airspace of a country can extend from its coast.16 While national airspace may extend no more than 12 nm from the coast, ADIZ are not subject to any such limit. States therefore may declare an ADIZ even farther than the 12 nm of airspace permitted as national airspace. States have only been happy to demarcate ADIZ in areas that are in some cases more than a few hundred miles off their coasts, since no legal rule prevents them from doing so. An example of such declarations is the US ADIZ off the coasts of Hawaii and California.17 An ADIZ is also different from warning zones during peacetime and no-fly zones during armed conflict. Warning zones are sometimes put in place to ensure that aircraft do not interfere or endanger special activities in a discrete section of national or international airspace
Gotta guess that at this point Taiwan has assembled at least a few nukes
if they know they are goign down hopefully they make them count in spectacular fashion.
ungood.
the disastrous and highly ignoble surrender of Afghanistan (with the Communist Chinese now apparently taking control of the USA air force bases in Afghanistan... which enables them to project their military power much further against at least a half dozen more countries)
the Chinese People’s Army, so-called, has just scored a major victory at zero cost...using an old Chinese teaching....
“The greates victory is that which requires no battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Mr Biden has created a dangerous vacuum, we had some deterrence ability but it looks like he’s abandoned it
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