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.

  • downpunxx
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    -181 year ago

    canadia sailed a warship through the taiwan straight, and that’s a fuck you to the united states, how?

    • wrath-sedan
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      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.

      Also they literally went together lol

      EDIT: Top comment was not actually confused, but is really being dragged through the mud for a slightly ambiguous three emoji combo haha, sorry top comment.

    • @[email protected]
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      -71 year ago

      Maybe he only speaks “High School Emoji” and isn’t that fluent yet. Misunderstandings can happen like that.

      • @utopianfiat
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        71 year ago

        Is it necessary to be so hostile?

          • @[email protected]
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            -21 year ago

            Reply guy? Do you have any clue what that even means? Put the Internet away before you hurt yourself, kid.

            You’re bent out of shape because no one understood your dumb comment. It’s kind of sad that you’re so easily hurt.

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          I didn’t even think I was being hostile? Does no one really remember thinking “embarasada” meant embarrassed in Spanish class?

          But now that I’ve checked back in with this thread and gotten a honestly pretty unexpected hostile reaction, yeah, let’s go with that then.