{"id":56525,"date":"2021-01-26T18:43:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T23:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56525"},"modified":"2021-01-26T18:43:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T23:43:51","slug":"china-to-hold-military-drills-in-gulf-of-tonkin-as-warning-to-nearby-us-carrier-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56525","title":{"rendered":"China To Hold Military Drills In Gulf Of Tonkin As Warning To Nearby US Carrier Group"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China To Hold Military Drills In Gulf Of Tonkin As Warning To Nearby US Carrier Group<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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China has announced plans to hold\u00a0military exercises in the South China Sea this week<\/strong>, a mere days after the Pentagon confirmed\u00a0a US aircraft carrier group led by\u00a0the USS Theodore Roosevelt had entered the disputed waters<\/strong>\u00a0in a “freedom of the seas” operation and after daily Chinese incursions of Taiwan’s airspace had been reported the prior week.<\/p>\n

Beijing, indignant at the\u00a0US muscle-flexing in its own backyard,\u00a0will hold the drills in the Gulf of Tonkin<\/strong>\u00a0also during a crucial week top Communist Party leaders of Vietnam are meeting for the once in five years National Congress\u00a0to select a new leader for the country.<\/p>\n

Reuters\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0of the new Chinese military drills, “A notice issued by the country\u2019s Maritime Safety Administration prohibited entry into a portion of waters in the Gulf of Tonkin to the west of the Leizhou peninsula in southwestern China from Jan. 27 to Jan. 30, but it did not offer details on when the drills would take place or at what scale.”<\/p>\n

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