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The Taiwan Strait Getting Hot, Hot, Hot…2.0
The Taiwan Strait Getting Hot, Hot, Hot…2.0 We originally posted the following in October 2018 after President Trump threw Montenegro, then the newest member of NATO under the bus a few months earlier. We suspected POTUS’ loose lips would someday sink ships, at least metaphorically, if not literally. The flapping of his jaws back in July 2018, […]
China Demands US Stop “Flexing Muscles” After Its New Carrier Sails Across Taiwan Strait
China Demands US Stop “Flexing Muscles” After Its New Carrier Sails Across Taiwan Strait China has gone on the diplomatic and military offensive Monday as China’s Defense Minister told his US counterpart that Washington must stop “flexing its muscles” in the South China Sea. At the same time Beijing has deployed its new domestically produced aircraft carrier to the […]
China Enraged After US Sails Two Destroyers Through Taiwan Strait
China Enraged After US Sails Two Destroyers Through Taiwan Strait Just in case the “world tech and trade war I” was not enough to send US-China relations back decades, on Wednesday the US military sent two Navy destroyers through the Taiwan Strait in its latest transit through the sensitive waterway, “angering China” at a time […]
Joint Russia-China Naval Drills Kick Off After 2 US Warships Enter Taiwan Strait
Joint Russia-China Naval Drills Kick Off After 2 US Warships Enter Taiwan Strait Early this week Chinese media confirmed that Russian warships arrived in Qingdao, a port city in East China’s Shandong Province, at the start this week’s join China-Russia naval exercises. The Russian fleet included the Varyag guided missile cruiser, a submarine, two anti-submarine ships, a […]
Two US Warships Sail Through Taiwan Strait In Dare To Beijing
Two US Warships Sail Through Taiwan Strait In Dare To Beijing With US-China trade talks set to resume this week amid what flashing red headlines, Larry Kudlow and Donald Trump’s twitter account remind us every day, if not hour, is a sense of “optimism” about an imminent deal, on Sunday the US navy reminded Beijing […]
US Warships Again Enter Taiwan Strait, But This Time With Chinese Bombers Overhead
US Warships Again Enter Taiwan Strait, But This Time With Chinese Bombers Overhead For the first time this year the United States has sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait Thursday in yet another challenge to the ‘One China’ policy and in accord with the US Navy’s “freedom of navigation” operations. It seems the US Navy is establishing this […]
“We Will Be At War With China In 15 Years” Predicts Former Commander Of U.S. Army In Europe
“We Will Be At War With China In 15 Years” Predicts Former Commander Of U.S. Army In Europe Days after U.S. warships made a provocative passage through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, further making already strained tensions between the Washington and Beijing — currently in the midst of a trade war — even hotter, the former top commander of the US […]
“Prospect Of U.S.-China War Rising” After US Warships Sail Through Taiwan Strait
“Prospect Of U.S.-China War Rising” After US Warships Sail Through Taiwan Strait Just after U.S. warships again made a provocative passage through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, further making already strained tensions between the Washington and Beijing — currently in the midst of a trade war — even hotter, Steve LeVine at Axios poses the question long on the […]
The Taiwan Strait Getting Hot, Hot, Hot…
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 One of GMM‘s most excellent followers, who we very much […]
In Latest Provocation To Beijing, US Plans New Warship Passage Through Taiwan Strait
In Latest Provocation To Beijing, US Plans New Warship Passage Through Taiwan Strait In Washington’s latest attempt to provoke Beijing, the United States is planning to send warships through the Taiwan Strait according to Reuters, a mission meant to ensure “free passage” through the strategic waterway and which will further heighten political tensions with China. […]
