After months of secretive planning, and preparing the crew to defend their ship if necessary, the Royal Canadian Navy has transited the Taiwan Strait.
As HMCS Ottawa entered the busy and strategically critical body of water at sunrise, it was flanked by three Chinese warships armed with missiles and torpedoes. They mirrored Ottawa’s moves for the entire 17-hour crossing.
Canada made the journey along with the USS Ralph Johnson, a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer, in what both countries describe as a freedom of navigation exercise.
I think this headline sounds sensationalist. It’s not untrue, but transiting the Taiwan Strait is something the US, Canada, and several other countries do pretty regularly to ensure they are still treated as international waters.
This headline makes it sound like an escalation when actually it’s pretty normal operating procedure.
Clickbait? Say it isn’t so!
Yes, it’s important to note the tone makes it sound like a provocation, good eye. China has been pushing that slant in media a few years now.
China claims the ENTIRE SOUTH CHINA SEA. Imagine the US claims the entire Pacific ocean.
I’m genuinely curious what you think the US and Canada are doing by sailing warships through another country’s claimed waters?
Its a game of bluff. China can make all the claims it wants, but the waterway is traditionally open navigable waters, and rules are basically “do you want to start a war to stake your claim?” You can find many recordings online of western ships passing through the strait, and a constant back and forth of;
“Turn back, you are in chinese waters.”
“This is the USS Fillintheblank, we are in International Waters performing a freedom of navigation exercise.”
“We order you to turn back now.”
“This is the USS Fillintheblank, we are in…”
Yes so deliberately being antagonistic to prove the point claiming it’s international waters?
Of course it’s necessary to be antagonistic towards breaking international agreements.
Trolling tankies
They are exercising their right to sail through international waters.
China just claimed your toilet water as its own, what are you gonna do about it?
Drop a massive stinker and refuse to flush
Oh yeah? Is your curiosity genuine? Really?
Get fucked ya CCP hosers.
I keep reading these comments in a strong Canadian accent.
Hoser mania is reaching epidemic proportions.
Xi and Brics is a bigger threat then anyone gives them credit for. It’ll be a New World order.
China can claim anything they want. They will never enforce it because they can’t. They might be an economic superpower (selling off your population as slaves to do labour for basically no money in awful conditions tends to do that), but they will never be a military one. Their weapons are copied, low quality garbage, their soldiers untrained, and undisciplined.
Ruzzia may have been the biggest paper tiger in history, China is the second biggest.
I would say China might actually be a better military power than Russia. No one would have believed just how fucking bad Russia’s military crumbled away. I doubt China has the same issues (but I don’t really know). Let’s say their weapons are copied (copies of what? State of the art weapons systems?) - I’d guess that means they can do some serious damage eitherway, and probably better than what Russia has. They have nukes too.
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The doubts about their non transparency regarding economics has finally hit the fan. Xi is due for a rude awakening. Also fuck Evergrande
Canada be like
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Literally red and green, doesn’t get much Canadianer. If the Chinese can’t find you handsome, they can say least find your navy.
I miss Red Green!
Also needs a hockey stick for good measure
“sorry…”
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Well, there’s some poutine in your eye
