Monday, April 10, 2023

China Wants To Board And Inspect Mrechant Ships In The Taiwan Strait. Taiwan Says It Will Not Comply

 

Axios: Beijing pushes Taiwan Strait claims 

The U.S. State Department says it's "monitoring closely" a Chinese maritime operation in the Taiwan Strait this week that includes boarding and inspecting ships. 

Why it matters: Officials in Taipei believe the unprecedented action in the Taiwan Strait is in reprisal for their president's D.C. meeting with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. 

* Taiwan's Maritime and Port Bureau said it had told ship crews not to comply with Chinese maritime "boardings and inspections" requests and instead contact the island's coast guard for protection.  

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Update #1: Taiwan Rejects China's Plan To Board and Inspect Merchant Ships (Newsweek)  

Update #2: China to inspect ships in Taiwan Strait, Taiwan says won't cooperate (Reuters) 

WNU Editor: This announcement by Beijing was done before this weekends military exercises around Taiwan. As of this posting, there has been no reports of China inspecting any ships in the Taiwan Strait.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

No, No and NO! That should be our response backed up with power. As soon as China starts this, game over.

Anonymous said...


Start moving the 7th Fleet assests towards Taiwan, along with Australia and Japan. Move the bombers to Guam and Hawaii, and nake sure those backup airfields in the surrounding islands are ready to go. Deploy a Marine Brigade to Okinnawa. Then wait...........

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately the us will line its ships up to be inspected. Maybe a mean tweet after

Anonymous said...

No you turn a blind eye and get caught off guard like the us normally does lol

Anonymous said...

Dudes--simplify
comment that yu want US tpo support Taiwan in a war with China or that you do not want that.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

4:32 is an expeer we ahould listen to 4:32

Anonymous said...

it's funny, because it's true_

Anonymous said...

yeah, for your commie tally?