Friday, February 05, 2021

US Warship Transits Through Taiwan Strait for First Time Under Biden

Sign of the times! A necessary provocation or response? Taiwan will be litmus test for the 46th President of the United States. Will the people of Taiwan resist the pressure from the mainland?

"A U.S. warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Feb. 4, marking the first such operation during the Biden administration.
The USS McCain, a guided-missile destroyer, made a routine transit in the narrow waterway between Taiwan and China in accordance with international law, the U.S. Seventh Fleet said in a statement. ... 
The maneuver came as the Chinese regime escalated its rhetoric and military pressure toward Taiwan in the days after President Joe Biden took office.
On the first weekend of Biden’s presidency, China made its largest-scale military incursions into the island’s air defense zone—13 military aircraft flew over Taiwan’s southwest waters on Jan. 23, and another 15 military aircraft made a similar incursion the next day."

US Warship Transits Through Taiwan Strait for First Time Under Biden

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