But it also includes a significant military component: the increasing presence of NATO warships in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait; the creation of AUKUS, the nuclear pact between Britain, the United States and Australia, with a clear objective of confronting China; the defense agreeme...
Rosie Perper
LOW 14 Sep 2021 Chinese Warships Sailing Near Aleutian Islands Shadowed by US Coast Guard [The Drive] LOW 17 Aug 2021 Chinese State Media Outlet Says US Will 'Abandon' Taiwan Like Afghanistan 'Once a War Breaks Out' [CNSNews] LOW 17 Aug 2021 PLAAF Exercises in Bashi Channel off souther...
Taiwan reports 14 Chinese warships and 4 balloons near the island Taiwanese President Lai reportedly has phone talks from Guam with US Congress leaders Beijing’s attitude has hardened considerably following a surprisingly mild initial response on Friday, in which it described the ba...
After Pelosi visited Taiwan, China conducted missiles strikes on targets in the seas around Taiwan, while also sending warships and war planes over the median line of the Taiwan Strait. It also fired missiles over the island itself which landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone, in a signific...
Formosa, Taiwan - an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea Nationalist China, Republic of China, Taiwan, China - a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the ...
A Taiwanese Air Force Mirage 2000 fighter jet prepares 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 ...
The mission of two helicopters, three warships and special forces is to protect China's commercial fleet from pirates off the Somalian coast. China's decision came after the merchant ship Zhenhua 4 repelled a pirate attack using gasoline-filled bottles and water cannon on Dec. 17, 2008. ...
While the John Finn’s transit of the Taiwan Strait was the first of 2024, US warships and warplanes regularly travel through and over the waterway. In 2023, US Navy and Coast Guard ships and Navy reconnaissance planes made 11 transits of the strait, according to a dat...
and a report from Taiwan’s government-run Central News Agency, citing government sources, that two of China’s most powerful warships – Type 55 destroyers – were sighted Tuesday off the central and southeastern coast of the island, the closest being within 37 miles (60 kilometers) of land...