Tag: Taiwan Strait

MPs Say UK Should Send Aircraft Carrier Through Taiwan Strait

April 20, 2021
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The UK should send its aircraft carrier through the Taiwan Strait amid increasing tension in the area, according to some British MPs. However, experts have mixed views on how significant the gesture would be. A British carrier is set to be deployed late next month to the Indo-Pacific region as part of a UK-led freedom of navigation…

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Use a Gun and Force Chinese People to Unify Taiwan: Chief Editor of State-Run Media

April 2, 2021
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Chief editor of Chinese state-owned Global Times said on Wednesday that Taiwan must be unified by force and veterans should force young people to fight on the frontlines. “I must go to the [China-Taiwan] battlefield. As a veteran, I will rejoin the army when required,” Hu Xijin, chief editor of the tabloid answered a netizen on…

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Chief Editor of Global Times Suggests Forcing Chinese People to Invade Taiwan

April 2, 2021
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Chief editor of Chinese state-owned Global Times said on Wednesday that Taiwan must be unified by force and veterans should force young people to fight on the frontlines. “I must go to the [China-Taiwan] battlefield. As a veteran, I will rejoin the army when required,” Hu Xijin, chief editor of the tabloid answered a netizen on…

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The Possibility of a War in the Taiwan Strait Should Not Be Overlooked

March 12, 2021
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Commentary China military expert Oriana Skylar Mastro told the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in a video conference on Feb. 18 that Chinese military leaders have told her personally that Beijing will force reunification with Taiwan in a year or two. Mastro stated that “the U.S. failure to build robust coalitions to counter Chinese…

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US Warship Transits Through Taiwan Strait for First Time Under President Biden

February 4, 2021
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A U.S. warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Jan. 4, marking the first such operation during the Biden administration. The USS McCain, a guided-missile destroyer, made a routine transit in the narrow waterway between Taiwan and China in accordance with international law, the U.S. Seventh Fleet said in a statement. “The ship’s transit through…

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US Warship Transits Through Taiwan Strait for First Time Under Biden

February 4, 2021
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A U.S. warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Feb. 4, marking the first such operation during the Biden administration. The USS McCain, a guided-missile destroyer, made a routine transit in the narrow waterway between Taiwan and China in accordance with international law, the U.S. Seventh Fleet said in a statement. “The ship’s transit through…

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Biden’s ‘Smarter Approach’ to China Crashes Into the Reality of Chinese Aggression

February 2, 2021
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Commentary In a Nov. 16, 2020 New York Times article, Ana Swanson used numerous interviews with unnamed sources advising Joe Biden to sum up his “smarter approach” to China: “He [Biden] and his advisers view many of Mr. Trump’s measures, which were aimed at severing ties between the Chinese and American economies, as clumsy, costly…

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