EXCLUSIVE U.S. warships carrying out Taiwan Strait passage, first since Pelosi visit -officials

[Hamartia Antidote]

U.S. warships transit Taiwan Strait, first since Pelosi visit

Two U.S. Navy warships sailed through international waters in the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, the first such operation since a visit to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi enraged China which regards the island as its territory.

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WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Two U.S. Navy warships are sailing through international waters in the Taiwan Strait, three U.S. officials told Reuters, the first such operation since heightened tension with China over U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.

In recent years U.S. warships, and on occasion those from allied nations such as Britain and Canada, have routinely sailed through the strait, drawing Beijing's anger.

China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory against the objections of the democratically elected government in Taipei, launched military drills near the island after Pelosi visited in early August, and those exercises have continued.

The trip infuriated Beijing, which saw it as a U.S. attempt to interfere in China's internal affairs.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, on Saturday said U.S. Navy cruisers Chancellorsville and Antietam were carrying out the operation which was still underway.

Such operations usually take between eight and 12 hours to complete and are closely monitored by the Chinese military.

The narrow Taiwan Strait has been a frequent source of military tension since the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with the communists, who established the People's Republic of China.

Pelosi was followed around a week later by a group of five other U.S. lawmakers, with China's military responding by carrying out more exercises near Taiwan.

Senator Marsha Blackburn, a U.S. lawmaker on the Senate Commerce and Armed Services committees, arrived in Taiwan on Thursday on the third visit by a U.S. dignitary this month, defying pressure from Beijing to halt the trips.

The Biden administration has sought to keep tension between Washington and Beijing, inflamed by the visits, from boiling over into conflict, reiterating that such congressional trips are routine.

The United States has no formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan but is bound by law to provide the island with the means to defend itself.

China has never ruled out using force to bring Taiwan under its control.

Taiwan's government says the People's Republic of China has never ruled the island and so has no right to claim it, and that only its 23 million people can decide their future.

USS Chancellorsville

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[Hamartia Antidote]

PLA warns US over warships sailing through Taiwan Straits

The Eastern Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army remains on high alert and is ready to thwart any provocations, Senior Colonel Shi Yi, a spokesman for the theater command, said in a statement on Sunday. The statement came after two United States warships sailed through the Taiwan...

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PLA warns US over warships sailing through Taiwan Straits​

The Eastern Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army remains on high alert and is ready to thwart any provocations, Senior Colonel Shi Yi, a spokesman for the theater command, said in a statement on Sunday.

The statement came after two United States warships sailed through the Taiwan Straits. The US cruisers Chancellorsville and Antietam sailed through the Taiwan Straits on Sunday, with the US publicly hyping the trip, Shi said.

He said the theater command has tracked and monitored the entire passage of the ships and has everything under control.

The transit was the first such operation of the US Navy since the PLA conducted military drills around the island of Taiwan in response to a visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier this month despite strong oppositions from the Chinese mainland.

 

[Catalystic]

Nothing happens…..just warnings warnings warnings
Nobody dares to do anything…..tired of this bullshit drama

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Taiwan strait is international water. Unless they enter Chinese territorial water, it's not a big news.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Nothing happens…..just warnings warnings warnings
Nobody dares to do anything…..tired of this bullshit drama

Word is the remaining Chinese ships participating in the long running Naval exercises moved aside and let the US ships through as their main forces had been distracted by chasing after the USS Ronald Reagan around Japan.

 

[Leishangthem]

Word is the Chinese ships participating in the long running Naval exercises moved aside and let the US ships through as their main forces had been distracted by chasing after the USS Ronald Reagan around Japan.

US chose a time when china has finished military exercise ,hurried in the transit before china announce a new exercise.America has to pull the facade of a superpower as much as they can drag it out, seems like setting itself up for a future bad landing. US mainly has nuclear threat as their military resort against China,that puts the US on same footing with NK.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

US chose a time when china has finished military exercise ,hurried in the transit before china announced a new exercise .

So, China's ships are not seaworthy for extended periods of time? That big fleet participating in the "massive" military excercise all went back to port for resupply?

Some of our fleets are out for 6 months at a stretch and China can't handle what..not even a month a few miles offshore?

So all that show of force around Taiwan was just temporary? Back to the old ways of China's Naval ships all sitting in port doing nothing?

Pelosi should visit every weekend.
China has just a clown Navy I guess.

 

[jhungary]

US chose a time when china has finished military exercise ,hurried in the transit before china announce a new exercise.America has to pull the facade of a superpower as much as they can drag it out, seems like setting itself up for a future bad landing. US only has nuclear threat as their military resort against China,that puts the US on same footing with NK.

You say that like if China are still in the area doing exercise, they would have shot the US Navy Ship......

 

[Leishangthem]

So, China's ships are not seaworthy for extended periods of time? They all went back to port for resupply?

So all that show of force around Taiwan was just temporary? Back to the old ways of China's Naval ships all sitting in port doing nothing?

You implied that the US navy went through the Chinese military exercise, but US waited for China to cease their sea exercise before picking a convenient timeline to pass through the strait .
Back to the old ways?Well,the recent military exercise established a new normal on the taiwan strait ,China can now cross the imaginary median line and conduct unprecedented lvl of military exercise,that includes blockade of the strait, or fly a missile over the island.

You say that like if China are still in the area doing exercise, they would have shot the US Navy Ship......

If there was military excercise ,US ships would have never approached the strait to begin with, especially not if China called a ban of entry during the exercise.

China is letting US have some saving face, it's a political maneuver, after all, China doesn't want to corner US politicians and force them to act irrationally,and cause a war, at least not yet.

 

[qwerrty]

taiwan strait is international water and wide. chinese and russian warships sail through tsugaru strait were more funny

China, Russia navy ships jointly sail through Japan strait

A group of 10 naval vessels from China and Russia sailed through a strait separating Japan's main island and its northern island of Hokkaido on Monday, the Japanese government said, adding that it is closely watching such activities.

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10 Russian Warships Pass through Tsugaru Strait

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)--Ten Russian navy ships have passed through the Tsugaru Strait between Japan's Ho…

www.nippon.com

 

[REhorror]

taiwan strait is international water and wide. chinese and russian warships sailing through tsugaru strait were more funny

China, Russia navy ships jointly sail through Japan strait

A group of 10 naval vessels from China and Russia sailed through a strait separating Japan's main island and its northern island of Hokkaido on Monday, the Japanese government said, adding that it is closely watching such activities.

www.reuters.com

10 Russian Warships Pass through Tsugaru Strait

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)--Ten Russian navy ships have passed through the Tsugaru Strait between Japan's Ho…

www.nippon.com

Damn, that's like cutting the neck of Japan!

 

[MH.Yang]

Word is the remaining Chinese ships participating in the long running Naval exercises moved aside and let the US ships through as their main forces had been distracted by chasing after the USS Ronald Reagan around Japan.

China concluded the exercise on August 10. On August 28, two tattered US warships crossed the Taiwan Strait. Why does China need to respond?

If the Americans really want to provoke China, they should cross the Strait before August 10.

China is only worried that such a dilapidated warship may leak and sink in the Strait, causing pollution to the sea.

When the USA sends such a dilapidated warship to the Taiwan Strait, it is simply polluting our eyes. Let's look at the Chinese fleet.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Wasting fuel for nothing and causing global warming.

 

[MH.Yang]

Damn, that's like cutting the neck of Japan!

The Taiwan Strait is originally an international waterway. China has no reason to block the passage of US warships.

China sends warships across the English Channel and Osumi kaikyo every year. Britain, France and Japan also did not intercept Chinese warships.

Two Chinese navy ships pass through Osumi Strait

Two Chinese navy survey vessels have sailed northeast through the Osumi Strait off the coast of Kagoshima Prefecture and into the Pacific Ocean, the Defense Ministry announced Thursday.

japannews.yomiuri.co.jp

Royal Navy Shadows Chinese Destroyer In English Channel | Joint Forces News

The Royal Navy announced this afternoon that the frigate HMS St Albans is today monitoring the progress of a Chinese destroyer through the English Channel.

www.joint-forces.com

British frigate escorts Chinese warship through English Channel

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

 

[tphuang]

I don't understand why people think anything needs to happen here. This is normal freedom of navigation. If anything, this is a pretty weak gesture (sending ships slated for retirement in a couple of years) and probably a signal from us military that they want to dial down the tension.