The CHN/ China thread

[Jimbuna]

BEIJING (Reuters) -A U.S. Navy destroyer sailed near one of the most important man-made and Chinese controlled islands in the South China Sea on Monday, in a freedom of navigation mission that Beijing denounced as illegal.

While the United States frequently makes such voyages to challenge China and other states' territorial claims in the strategic waterway, the latest one took place as Beijing staged more war games around Taiwan.

The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet said the USS Milius engaged in "normal operations" within 12 nautical miles of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands, once a reef submerged at high tide and where China has built an airport and other facilities.

"Under customary international law ... features like Mischief Reef that are submerged at high tide in their naturally formed state are not entitled to a territorial sea," the 7th Fleet said in a statement.

"The land reclamation efforts, installations, and structures built on Mischief Reef do not change this characterisation under international law."
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...16ce8f76&ei=14

Something or someone must give before not too long, surely.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

How quickly he has forgotten who freed his country in the previous world war.

People do not like beign told they took somebody's help for it showed that they were weak to go the way all by themselves.



Thats no excuse, only an explanation.

[Skybird]

Guam - where America's next war may begin.


https://www.economist.com/united-sta...-war-may-begin

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

It is now being reported that China is preparing to impose a no-fly zone just north of Taiwan after conducting three days of military drills around the island.

[Reece]

I'd say something nice about China but I might get banned from Subsim!!

[Skybird]

You may want to consider hoarding chips.

[Jimbuna]

China appears to backtrack over no-fly zone near Taiwan
Taipei says Beijing has confined flight ban north of island to 27 minutes on Sunday after initial three-day plan.

[Jimbuna]

Get ready ‘for real combat’ President Xi tells Chinese forces.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...3a8a2f7f&ei=22

[Otto Harkaman]

U.S., Chinese Aircraft Carriers Operating Near Taiwan, Chinese Carrier Shandong Launched 80 Fighter Missions in Weekend Drills



Both a U.S. and a Chinese carrier strike group are operating near Taiwan.
The Shandong Carrier Strike Group launched 80 J-15 Flying Shark fighter missions from Friday through Sunday from People’s Liberation Army Navy carrier CNS Shandong (17)
https://news.usni.org/2023/04/10/u-s...weekend-drills


These two carrier groups have been sparing off since January 2023
https://navyrecognition.com/index.ph...ike-group.html

[Jimbuna]

China stalls Antony Blinken’s Beijing visit over ‘spy balloon’ concerns.
https://www.ft.com/content/d451f11d-...8-42fc0295fc01

[Skybird]

No surprise, but often ignored in Western media debates.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ked-documents/

[Jimbuna]

I don't see China having much of a problem if they do decide to attack Taiwan.

[Skybird]

Attacking Taiwan will cost them, I have no doubt, but their attack will be much, much stronger than Russia's attack on Ukraine, and it will have economically prepared much better and will have made its banking businesses harder to crack down on. And no matter what they do, the threat for our economy stays the same: either they vaporize the factories in Taiwan if Taiwanese resistence is stronger than expected, or said factories end up in China's hands, allowing it to hold a knife at the world's throat. Both scenarios are utmost desaster for us in the West.



A conquest of Taiwan would be a drama second to none for the Taiwanese, it was reported that the Chinese have plans to give the Taiwanese the same treatment they blueprinted by example of how they deal with the Uyghurs.

[Jimbuna]

^ Agreed