Taiwan’s air force on Monday sent aircraft to shadow jets from mainland China that crossed over a channel to the South of the island, as tensions continue to mount in the region.
China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) flew an unspecified number of Xian H-6 bombers, Su-30 fighter jets and Y-8 transport aircraft over the Bashi Channel, Reuters reported Taiwan’s defense ministry as saying.
The incident comes after a Chinese aircraft carrier group sailed through the Taiwan Strait last week, prompting Taiwan to send an aircraft carrier to follow the mainland vessels.
US policy shift?
China’s military movements near Taiwan, a territory Beijing considers to be a wayward province of the People’s Republic of China, come as the United States sends signals of a potential policy shift on the issue.
In addition to endorsing the so-called “One China Policy,” which maintains that there is one China and that Taiwan is part of China, Washington has traditionally been careful to keep a low profile in its support for the status quo. The US continues to sell arms to the island territory and effectively support de facto administrative independence – both of which policies Beijing considers unacceptable in the long term.
While US President Donald Trump backed off his pre-inauguration threat to reconsider the “One China Policy,” his administration’s foreign policy team is taking shape as a decidedly pro-Taiwan group.
As seasoned China watcher Bill Bishop summarized at Axios:
“Mike Pompeo and John Bolton are known as very ‘pro-Taiwan,’ as is Randall Schriver, assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs.
“The nomination of Susan Thornton to be assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs is apparently dead in the wake of the firing of Rex Tillerson, and some of the names I am hearing who may be nominated for that spot are advocates of a much closer U.S.-Taiwan relationship.”
Schriver, more than being just pro-Taiwan, has dedicated much of his career as CEO and President of the Project 2049 Insitute to promoting greater official recognition of Taiwan’s international role as a nation that enjoys de facto independence from China.
Trump’s decision to sign the Taiwan Travel Act before it would have automatically gone into effect last Saturday amounted to an enthusiastic endorsement of one of the policy recommendations consistently made by the Project 2049 Institute, namely, to increase official government ties. The legislation authorizes US officials to meet with Taiwanese counterparts in an official capacity.
Beijing has called the law a red line. It is uncertain how they will enforce this red line, which has already been crossed by the passage of the bill with an exclamation point added in the form of Trump’s unnecessary signature.
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I find it odd the communists in china let the nationals fight world war 2. Then kicked the nationals when they were down. Who fled to taiwan. Then the communists couldnt take taiwan then. But still claim to own it some how. They lost tdying to take taiwan back then. So face it they were pussies during ww2 and they are the same now. So you must have a point to that.
Hope no more of this happens but if it happens Taiwan better be self reliant
just destroy any US ship landed in Taiwan. China mush take serious action against Taiwan and any country try to seperate the one china policy
what a leader are you.You build china until this day ang you only destroy in non sense war.Ego of Chian is very high ang that is the problem.China it self is the problem.You are greedy now and your scapegoat is the old history teretory of yours.World borderline is already drawn many time what you are talking of old civilization.Be contented what you have you are only destroying yourself.Many chinese cannot be eat feed them not on your idology.
Come on China, act on the Red Line that you’re talking. Too much rhetoric is also poisonous.
Isn’t it obvious?
What guerilla group do you support in the Philippines?
The lull before the storm?
NO ONE SHADOWS TAIWAN
ONCE TAIWAN SCAMBLES ITS OWN JET FIGHTERS
IT SHOULD SHOOT DOWN IMMEDIATELY THE INTRUDERS NO QUESTION ASK????
No war. Stop war.
They r practice how to invade taiwan in hour,this is the signal that china wants taiwan,this will be the end of the wotl if happens!!
Taiwan would do well to remember what happened to the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the Contras of Nicarauga, and the Bay of Pigs and how the US did not meet its commitments to these people. If Taiwan wants freedom they will have to be prepared to pay a steep price for it; do not depend on anyone but yourselves. If help is given, good, if not, be prepared to go it alone. Possibly give small arms and basic infantry training to citizen’s militia’s who will be ready to fight and augment the regular Armed Forces.
Just too much saber-rattling. Xi is so beset with internal and foreign problems now that a military offensive to occupy Taiwan will be suicidal, both for its economy and Xi’s new status as president for life.
In military parlance, these are the trial runs before the actual action.
China is more than just Taiwan. Let nature takes its course. If China is going to collapse, nothing can prop it up. And if USA is on the descent, it is only the doings of the Americans. Look at the ills besetting the society. Guns, drugs, gridlock, societal upheaval, etc a modern HEDON in the making!
Just itching to get another war started. Russia, China, Iran who cares just get it going. The The evidence will be formed to fit the policy. Any reason will suffice.