{"id":39575,"date":"2018-10-23T05:48:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T10:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39575"},"modified":"2018-10-23T05:48:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T10:48:37","slug":"the-taiwan-strait-getting-hot-hot-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39575","title":{"rendered":"The Taiwan Strait Getting Hot, Hot,\u00a0Hot\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Taiwan Strait Getting Hot, Hot,\u00a0Hot\u2026<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n

We\u00a0posted the following in July<\/a> after President Trump threw Montenegro under the bus.<\/p>\n

Taiwan may be about to get hot, hot, hot in the next year after last night\u2019s Commander in Chief\u2019s ambiguous message on defense treaties.\u00a0 \u2013 GMM<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

One of GMM<\/a>\u2018s most excellent followers, who we very much like and respect, responded with this:<\/p>\n

This whole article is a science-fiction of oh, this could happen, and oh that could happen\u2026. And we could be hit with an asteroid tomorrow. Just sit back and watch the hands that are dealt and how they are played. This article is either Sci-fi or false news. Your choice!<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We still like and respect the reader, by the way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\nU.S. To Send Warships Through The Strait, Again<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday,\u00a0 Zero Hedge posted a great piece,\u00a0\u00a0In Latest Provocation To Beijing, US Plans New Warship Passage Through Taiwan Strait,<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>bringing to our attention the following Reuters article, <\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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. \u2013 Reuters<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

John Bolton\u2019s Fingerprints\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The show of force by the U.S. in the Taiwan Strait appears to be a hardening line against and challenge to President Xi\u2019s\u00a0One China Policy<\/a>\u00a0and has National Security Adviser,\u00a0 John Bolton\u2019s fingerprints all over it.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Taiwan Strait Getting Hot, Hot,\u00a0Hot\u2026 We\u00a0posted 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\u2019s Commander in Chief\u2019s ambiguous message on defense treaties.\u00a0 \u2013 GMM One of GMM\u2018s most excellent followers, who we very much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2045,130,7844,15450,22454,827],"class_list":["post-39575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-global-macro-monitor","tag-taiwan-strait","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39576,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39575\/revisions\/39576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}