China has again put its military in a “high state of alert” after two US Navy warships recently sailed through the Taiwan Strait. Late last week the US destroyer John McCain sailed near the disputed Paracel Islands administered and militarized by China, upon which the PLA military warned the US to “halt its provocations”.
The latest incident was Wednesday, when the Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry passed through the strait. Washington was quick to emphasize that it was a “routine transit” like others toward the purpose of peaceful ‘freedom of navigation’ operations, while Beijing once again denounced the “trouble-stirring statements and moves”.
State-backed Global Times said the USS Barry transit resulted in assets from China’s Eastern Theater Command being mobilized. It “organized naval and air forces and tracked and monitored the USS Barry destroyer for the entire course when the U.S. warship sailed through the Taiwan Straits on Wednesday,” according to GT.
The PLA’s Senior Colonel Zhang Chunhui said: “We sternly urge the U.S. to stop making trouble-stirring statements and moves. The command forces are always on high alert in resolutely safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits.”
These latest tensions based on US presence in the contested sea lanes cased the PLA military to be put on alert. While this is nothing new Chinese President Xi Jinping’s language has grown more threatening in referencing talk of war.
While touring a military base at Chaozhou City in the southern province of Guangdong Xi is reported to have told the elite troops to “maintain a state of high alert” and “put all (their) minds and energy on preparing for war”.
This also comes at a moment of fresh reports the Trump administration has authorized three types of major weapons sales to Taiwan, which China has condemned as a violation of the long-standing ‘One China’ status quo. More advanced weapons are also under consideration, thus the threats out of Beijing are only expected to grow more fierce.
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War always makes a nice distraction from domestic tyranny.
And it is great for certain businesses too.
It’s all about the water:
“It is not just the Mekong: China is constructing dams on multiple international rivers just before they leave its territory. China’s efforts to reengineer cross-border natural flows are roiling its relations with downstream neighbors. Its occupation of the sprawling Tibetan Plateau enlarged its landmass by more than one-third and fundamentally altered Asia’s geostrategic realities. It made China the neighbor of India, Nepal, and Bhutan. Furthermore, China gained a throttlehold on the headwaters of Asia’s major river systems.”
Uh oh. The China-Bhutan War looms. No one fucks with the Royal Bhutan Army!
I just wish China didn’t build their Country so close to our Military bases, damn them!!!
Pfffft. So what. China, Russia, USA, Joosrael, A Rabs … going on “high alert” is pretty damn routine. It means very little … except as nice click-bait for ZH.
Nothing will happen until after the election.
If Biden wins, so does the PRC.
Without a shot.
And the United States has a national security problem with a
Chinese ship doing that ??
Not if it is a Chinese ship filled with trade goods headed for corporate sponsors. Then they will avert there gaze.
All of these China “huffing and puffing” narratives mean little right now. But when Imperial Japan has had enough of China’s threats, we will know it and so will China, and people should then start paying attention to it all.
FU Zerohedge.
