WASHINGTON —Secretary of State Warren Christopher, accusing China of “reckless” military provocations against Taiwan that “smack of intimidation and coercion,” announced Sunday that the United States is responding by moving warships closer to the island. In Washington’s strongest public warning yet...
“I can tell you that Taiwan independence is as incompatible with peace in the Taiwan Strait as fire with water. Provocation by the Taiwan independence forces will surely be met with countermeasures,” Mao said. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said it deployed warships to designated spots in the oc...
Zhang said that the title of militarization of the South China Sea is more suited for the United States as it frequently sends warships and planes to intrude into the adjacent waters and air space of China's islands and reefs in the South China Sea and frequently carries out closing reconnais...
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independence. Beijing claims Taiwan is part of China’s territory and the People’s Liberation Army sends navy ships and warplanes into the Taiwan Strait and other areas around the island almost daily to wear down Taiwanese defenses and intimidate its people, ...
to take off from an air force base in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, May 23, 2024, as Chinese warships and jets encircled the democratic island amid military exercises.YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty"Facing external challenges and threats, we will continue to maintain the values of freedom and democrac...
no fighting experience. The worst that would happen, I think, is that the CCP threatens war, maybe sends some warships to the strait, maybe fires some rockets over the island and flies some fighter jets over the island, but that’s about it. The CCP just doesn’t have the muster to ...
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That followed a full day between Friday and Saturday in which eight warships and 71 planes were detected near Taiwan, according to the island’s Defense Ministry. It said in a statement that it was approaching the situation from the perspective of “not escalating conflict, and not causing disp...
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