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.
Canada doesn’t recognize Taiwan as a country. How anyone in Canada’s leadership thought this was a good idea, I don’t know.
There’s an order of operations that should go down before going through.
First recognize Taiwan.
Then acknowledge their territorial waters.
Instead, we get this cosplay of an act
More like territorial waters is 12 nautical miles for the coast so even if Taiwan was considered part of mainland China, the straight is like 90nm wide so a majority of it should be freely navigable by any ship. China doesn’t think so and claims the entire thing as territorial waters.
China’s claims are absud, even extending to waters bordering the Philippines. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=spratly+islands&ia=web&iaxm=maps&strict_bbox=0
Taiwan claims those waters as well…
Most people don’t understand that both People’s Republic of China (“China”) and Republic of China (“Taiwan”) claim the same borders and territory and pretend “Taiwan” is being opressed.
I am sure if the ROC defeated PRC in the civil war the issues of Tibet, the strait and the South China Sea would be just given to China because China would be a US ally and NATO member along side being a permanent UN security seat member
I didn’t know China was located in the Atlantic.
Correct. They’d be a Major non-NATO ally:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_non-NATO_ally
On a close relationship like Japan and Republic of Korea
But other than that, my point still stands.
By the same definition, crossing the median in a plane shouldn’t be worthy of mention.
canada is a nato nation and nato recognized taiwan as an external ally sooo…
It’s not really a cosplay if the missiles are real
If we simply reject that fighting for Taiwan’s sovereignty was the sole motivation for this action, I think things make a lot more sense.
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@1bluepixel @Jaytreeman
Did you say the same thing about China when Xi publically dressed-down Trudeau?
@1bluepixel @Jaytreeman provoking? They are waters that China has no business in. China is the one who is escalating the situation.