SHEER AMERICAN PROVOCATION - US, Canadian navies stage rare joint mission through Taiwan Strait

US, Canadian navies stage rare joint mission through Taiwan Strait

US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin speaks at the First Plenary Session of the 20th IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore June 3, 2023. — Reuters pic

Saturday, 03 Jun 2023 5:38 PM MYT


TAIPEI, June 3 — A US and a Canadian warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait today, the US Navy said, in a rare joint mission in the sensitive waterway at a time of heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington over Chinese-claimed Taiwan.

The US Navy’s 7th Fleet said the guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon and Canada’s HMCS Montreal conducted a “routine” transit of the strait “through waters where high-seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law”.


“Chung-Hoon and Montreal’s bilateral transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the commitment of the United States and our allies and partners to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” it said in a statement.

While US warships transit the strait around once a month, it is unusual for them to do so with those of other US allies.


The mission took place as the US and Chinese defence chiefs were attending a major regional security summit in Singapore.


At that event, US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin rebuked China for refusing to hold military talks, leaving the superpowers deadlocked over Taiwan and territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

There was no immediate response to the sailing from China’s military, which routinely denounces them as a US effort to stir up tensions.

The last such publicly revealed US-Canadian mission in the narrow strait took place in September.

China has been ramping up military and political pressure in an attempt to force Taiwan to accept Beijing’s sovereignty claims, which the government in Taipei strongly rejects. — Reuters

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kt comments:

Taiwan Straits must be next to the North American continent, and to e;f;f;s; with the blardy Monroe Doctrine that the Wankees cherish so much.

Last I know was that Taiwan is part of China, a fact that even the Wankees and the West have long accepted, which was why on 25 Oct 1971 they kicked ROC (Taiwan) out of the UN and replaced same with the PROC (today's China).

Guess what - as reported by the New York Times 25 Oct 1971 (extract):

The U.S. supports a “one China” policy, which maintains that, though the People’s Republic does not hold sovereignty over Taiwan, there is only one China that includes both the mainland and Taiwan. It has not supported Taiwan’s applications for membership, objecting to what it perceives as “an effort to change the fragile status quo that has governed relations among the three.”

None was/is/will be as treacherous as a Wankee so-called "friend" - got that,Taiwanese?