Tag Archives: Taiwan Strait

The Eastern Theatre Command mounts joint combat-readiness exercises on Christmas Day. Source link

Most Taiwanese companies doing business in mainland China have moved or planned to move some manufacturing or sourcing elsewhere, according to a US think tank poll. Source link

Chinese president says he is ready to work together on expanding cooperation. Source link

Mercatus Centre, which concludes any attack would have enormous global costs, draws on information from a Chinese database that includes thousands of possible strategic targets. Source link

An article in the Chinese military’s official newspaper says the air force has been operating in ‘previously unreachable areas’. Source link

‘We stand ready to fight’, social media post by PLA theatre command overseeing Taiwan says. Source link

China is correct that the Taiwan Strait is not ‘international waters’. And the US is right that warships and warplanes have the right to pass through. But for the US, exercising that right is a political decision and complicates the issue of the status of Taiwan and the one-China policy. …

Foreign ministry says Beijing has always opposed US arms sales to the island after defence chief said United States would make available ‘defence articles and services’ needed to defend against ‘the Chinese threat’. Source link

The United States is seeking to quash suggestions that the war in Ukraine presents an opportunity for mainland China to attack Taiwan, Chinese observers said.The assessment was in response to a commitment from White House Indo-Pacific policy coordinator Kurt Campbell that the US would keep its focus on the Indo-Pacific …

A US warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Saturday, as part of what the American military calls routine activity that nonetheless irritates China.The US Navy’s 7th Fleet said its Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson was conducting a “routine” transit through international waters.“The ship’s transit through the …