The Taiwan Strait Getting Hot, Hot, Hot…
We posted the following in July after President Trump threw Montenegro under the bus.
Taiwan may be about to get hot, hot, hot in the next year after last night’s Commander in Chief’s ambiguous message on defense treaties. – GMM
U.S. To Send Warships Through The Strait, Again
Yesterday, Zero Hedge posted a great piece, In Latest Provocation To Beijing, US Plans New Warship Passage Through Taiwan Strait, bringing to our attention the following Reuters article,
The United States is considering a new operation to send warships through the Taiwan Strait, U.S. officials tell Reuters, a mission aimed at ensuring free passage through the strategic waterway but which risks heightening tensions with China.
The United States is considering a new operation to send warships through the Taiwan Strait, U.S. officials tell Reuters, a mission aimed at ensuring free passage through the strategic waterway but which risks heightening tensions with China. – Reuters
John Bolton’s Fingerprints
The show of force by the U.S. in the Taiwan Strait appears to be a hardening line against and challenge to President Xi’s One China Policy and has National Security Adviser, John Bolton’s fingerprints all over it.
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