US Navy guided-missile destroyers and guided-missile cruisers. U.S. Navy photo by Lt.j.g. Caleb Swigart
Business Insider: US Navy warships just rocked the Taiwan Strait in a power play ahead of Trump's meeting with the Chinese president
* The US Navy destroyer USS Stockdale and the underway replenishment oiler USNS Pecos sailed through the Taiwan Strait Wednesday.
* The maneuver through the closely-watched strait comes just days ahead of a meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit.
* Tensions between Washington and Beijing have been running high these past few months as a number of key issues go unresolved.
The US Navy sent two warships through the Taiwan Strait Wednesday, just days ahead of a planned meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stockdale, accompanied by the Henry J. Kaiser-class underway replenishment oiler USNS Pecos, the US Pacific Fleet explained to Business Insider in an emailed statement.
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Update: Two U.S. Navy ships pass through Taiwan Strait, opposing China (Reuters)
WNU Editor: If you want to irritate the Chinese, this is the way to do it.
This is international waters. They should have learned that by now. Good for Trump. Didn't vote for him, but he's got more spine than Obama on this matter, so much is obvious
ReplyDeleteYou could go one step further and bring along a Japanese "carrier" all while practicing touch and go landings with f-35's :)
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ReplyDeleteNeither China nor Russia pushed the envelop under Obama. Trump unable, unwilling to stand up to Putin on Ukraine and a blockade now in place...Trump is the wimp, not Obama
Ok Fred, I usually don't like confronting people directly here but your wrong on all counts. I mean you read this page so you should know what Trump has done since he has been in office; what did we get out of the Obama/Hillary State - a reset switch along with a non enforcement of the Red line in Syria. The later having devastating consequences for Syria and the EU with all the migrants. Wow, your bias really shows in this post.
ReplyDeletesorry Mike, but we all see things not as they are but as we are.
ReplyDeleteTrump has allowed Russia and Iran to win Syria for Assad. Under Trump we not only backed off but sold out the Kurds...what exactly has Trump done since in office? Russia now blockading Ukraine and Trump says nothing!
Fred!! Wrong again; Obama gave Syria to Russia, not Trump and we are defending the Kurds; did you not see the post about the Listening posts!? Really - let's at least state facts and not beliefs here. Another words, I could care less what one believes to be true, I want to know the Facts and that is how we get out of all this back and forth. Go do some more reading.
DeleteDidn't Russia take Crimea under Obama? Doesnt Obama bow to Muslims? How's that Iran deal working out? Wasn't Obama attending a racist church for for a long time? Didn't he hang out with the weathermen?
ReplyDeleteMP wash your mouth out with soap.
ReplyDeleteTrump thus far an utter failure and the law closing in on him...if you do not know that you see only Fox...Obama had a deal with Iran. Not perhaps the best but now no deal and Iran free to make nukes...Syria lost. ISIS still around and strong. Climate change enough to worry the Pentagon and that group considers it a security issue...tax: help the very wealthy (I know this since a relative boasted that though he dislikes Trump the trump tax thing gave him some 70 thou)...the middle class still losing...health care? nada nada nada...Infrastructure? nothing...
china builds islands and Trump seems unconcerned. so tell us: what has Trump really done in two years?
Brainwashed!! Oh well - I tried.
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