Posted on Jul 25, 2019
US Navy sails warship through contested waterway as Beijing warns Taiwan
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The US Navy sailed a warship through the Taiwan Strait Wednesday, a move that came on the same day Beijing warned that it would not rule out using force against self-governed Taiwan to block any move toward formal independence.
The "USS Antietam conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit July 24-25 (local time) in accordance with international law," Cdr. Clay Doss, a spokesman for the US Navy's Seventh Fleet, told CNN in a statement
"The ships' transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific," he added, saying "The US Navy will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows."
The US routinely sails through the Taiwan Strait, last doing so in May, but Chinese military forces view the strategic waterway separating China from Taiwan as a priority area and often shadow US vessels that sail through the area.
The "USS Antietam conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit July 24-25 (local time) in accordance with international law," Cdr. Clay Doss, a spokesman for the US Navy's Seventh Fleet, told CNN in a statement
"The ships' transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific," he added, saying "The US Navy will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows."
The US routinely sails through the Taiwan Strait, last doing so in May, but Chinese military forces view the strategic waterway separating China from Taiwan as a priority area and often shadow US vessels that sail through the area.
US Navy sails warship through contested waterway as Beijing warns Taiwan
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Lt Col Charlie Brown I Don't Think So Either but there will be Plenty of Bluster and Posturing.
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Oh, please...those stupid Commie idiots...Taiwan's been independent for decades...gimme a break...and if those Commie morons are too stupid to realize it, after decades of it being that way, too bad....formal independence...are they for real? I mean, Jeez Louise, talk about yelling and screaming to lock the barn door after the horse already ran out decades ago, ya know?
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Capt Daniel Goodman
And those Taiwanese guys are REAL serious...I've seen films on YouTube of their Special Forces guys, they're as good as any on the planet...there's only ONE China, and that's Taiwan, QED, period, finis, cut and dry, the end....
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Capt Daniel Goodman
https://www.stjohns.edu/about/news/photo-galleries/sun-yat-sen
When I'd gone to an aikido seminar a cpl of yrs ago here, I'd seen this bldg there, which I'd thought really interesting...formal independence...please...stupid Commie morons....
When I'd gone to an aikido seminar a cpl of yrs ago here, I'd seen this bldg there, which I'd thought really interesting...formal independence...please...stupid Commie morons....
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