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Has entered the South China Sea through the bus channel

 

[Dawood Ibrahim]

Chinese carrier enters South China Sea amid renewed tension


A group of Chinese warships led by the country's sole aircraft carrier entered the top half of the South China Sea on Monday after passing south of Taiwan, the self-ruled island's Defence Ministry said of what China has termed a routine exercise.

The move comes amid renewed tension over Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, ineligible for state-to-state relations, following US President-elect Donald Trump's telephone call with the island's president that upset Beijing.

The Soviet-built Liaoning aircraft carrier has taken part in previous exercises, including some in the South China Sea, but China is years away from perfecting carrier operations similar to those the United States has practised for decades.

Taiwan's Defence Ministry said the carrier, accompanied by five vessels, passed southeast of the Pratas Islands, which are controlled by Taiwan, heading southwest.

The carrier group earlier passed 90 nautical miles south of Taiwan's southernmost point via the Bashi Channel, between Taiwan and the Philippines.

"Staying vigilant and flexible has always been the normal method of maintaining airspace security," said ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi, declining to say whether Taiwan fighter jets were scrambled or if submarines had been deployed.

Chen said the ministry was continuing to "monitor and grasp the situation".

Senior Taiwan opposition Nationalist lawmaker Johnny Chiang said the Liaoning exercise was China's signal to the United States that it has broken through the "first island chain", an area that includes Japan's Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan.

In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said people should not read too much into what the carrier was up to, as its movements were within the law.

"Our Liaoning should enjoy in accordance with the law freedom of navigation and overflight as set by international law, and we hope all sides can respect this right of China's," she told a daily news briefing.

Influential state-run Chinese tabloid the Global Times said the exercise showed how the carrier was improving its combat capabilities and that it should now sail even further afield.

"The Chinese fleet will cruise to the Eastern Pacific sooner or later. When China's aircraft carrier fleet appears in offshore areas of the US one day, it will trigger intense thinking about maritime rules," the newspaper said in an editorial.

China has been angered recently by US naval patrols near islands that China claims in the South China Sea. This month, a Chinese navy ship seized a US underwater drone in the South China Sea. China later returned it.

Japan said late on Sunday it had spotted six Chinese naval vessels including the Liaoning travelling through the passage between Miyako and Okinawa and into the Pacific.

Japan's top government spokesman said on Monday the voyage showed China's expanding military capability and Japan was closely monitoring it.

China's air force conducted long-range drills this month above the East and South China Seas that rattled Japan and Taiwan. China said those exercises were also routine.

Last December, the defence ministry confirmed China was building a second aircraft carrier but its launch date is unclear. The aircraft carrier program is a state secret.

Beijing could build multiple aircraft carriers over the next 15 years, the Pentagon said in a report last year.

China claims most of the South China Sea through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. Neighbours Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.



http://www.dawn.com/news/1304582/chinese-carrier-enters-south-china-sea-amid-renewed-tension

 

[BuddhaPalm]

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We are maintaining a constant military presence off the East Coast of Taiwan. When the time is ripe, the live fire exercises become real and CVBG surround Taiwan with a military blockade while the PLAN Marines launch an amphibious attack from all sides. At our current rate of escalation, the attack will happen within three years.

 

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[grey boy 2]

6000 class FFG 054B construction has begun ?

 

[cirr]

6000 class FFG 054B construction has begun ?

6000-ton full displacement?

I want to see an end to the construction of 052Ds in 2 years, followed by the start of 052E with fully integrated electric propulsion etc.

 

[艹艹艹]

Chinese Navy anti submarine helicopter chase Japanese submarine in the Miyako Island Strait

 

[帅的一匹]

Soryu class is just so so. I don't believe Japanese hyper.

 

[Akasa]

Soryu class is just so so. I don't believe Japanese hyper.

If the Soryu were just "so-so" as you've just described, the PLAN wouldn't have taken over half a decade to be able to track (and boast about tracking) it. This isn't the first time the Soryu has taken such patrols and I'd wager this isn't the first instance of the submarine taking a good look at PLAN hardware as well.

 

[帅的一匹]

If the Soryu were just "so-so" as you've just described, the PLAN wouldn't have taken over half a decade to be able to track (and boast about tracking) it. This isn't the first time the Soryu has taken such patrols and I'd wager this isn't the first instance of the submarine taking a good look at PLAN hardware as well.

You don't know Chinese well, we keep it low down.

 

[Akasa]

You don't know Chinese well, we keep it low down.

And yet suddenly they are not only reporting of this alleged encounter, but also posting infographics of it. Sounds like it's a newly-acquired capability (or skill) rather than a deliberate loosening of OPSEC.

 

[帅的一匹]

And yet suddenly they are not only reporting of this alleged encounter, but also posting infographics of it. Sounds like it's a newly-acquired capability (or skill) rather than a deliberate loosening of OPSEC.

Japan navy is very delicate, but still retrained by its size and population. Especially the land mass. They are quite nervous China will cut its SCS route, but we didn't do it. Cause we have economy relationship with Japan as well.

 

[Akasa]

Japan navy is very delicate, but still retrained by its size and population. Especially the land mass. They are quite nervous China will cut its SCS route, but we didn't do it. Cause we have economy relationship with Japan as well.

I was referring to this specific incident. It seems as if the PLAN had only recently acquired the capability to track the Soryu-class SSKs since their debut in 2009 (when they most likely have started their patrols around Chinese fleets).

 

[艹艹艹]

It seems as if the PLAN had only recently acquired the capability to track the Soryu-class SSKs since their debut in 2009 (when they most likely have started their patrols around Chinese fleets).

 

[帅的一匹]

I was referring to this specific incident. It seems as if the PLAN had only recently acquired the capability to track the Soryu-class SSKs since their debut in 2009 (when they most likely have started their patrols around Chinese fleets).

It's normal, we have many good stuffs in our arsenal. There always be some good development when you pour money into R&D.