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Running ships through the Taiwan Strait seems to be a needlessly provocative and pointless dick-swinging exercise. Not that I don't fear and loathe those Chi-Co
by sillywalk 3y ago
Running ships through the Taiwan Strait seems to be a needlessly provocative and pointless dick-swinging exercise. Not that I don't fear and loathe those Chi-Coms, but they make all our shit, and they don't run warships near our borders(?).
- 082349872349872 3y ago> they make all our shit Looking at it from their point of view, I bet they view their ocean ports as (at least in the short run?) the only reasonable way to export all that shit. (US and Soviet vessels used to actually make contact during the cold war; afaik the USN calls it "shouldering")
- moose_man 3y agoYes they do. When Obama was in Alaska, China sailed warships sailed nearby as an implicit intimidation move. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-military/five-chinese-ships-in-bering-sea-as-obama-visits-alaska-idUKKCN0R22DN20150902 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-military/five-c... Taiwan Strait is international waters same as the Bering Sea.
- sillywalk 3y agoThe tit-for-tat, I figured as much. Also, ugh Heritage Foundation. Our ships are incapable of making implicit threats by their presence, and can only participate in innocent freedom of navigation exercises, and vice versa. It's the self-righteous hypocrisy that annoys me.
- moose_man 3y agoYou're changing the argument. I'm just pointing out China does the same thing, even worse, threatening a US President. As far as I'm aware the US Navy hasn't threatened the Chinese leadership. You said they didn't do anything to deserve it, I'm saying yes they did. They brought this on themselves.