German warships set to sail through Taiwan Strait

[Harpy Eagle]

This little chat here is bringing a smile to my face, the predictable Chinese bogeyman again!

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We can also think about the number of countries and people in Indochina that the US has invaded, attacked, bombed, dumped chemical weapons and so on since the end of WW2.

If China had done to central America and Mexico what the US did in Indochina, how would we we think about being surrounded by Chinese military installations...

If you would bother to actually read my post you would know I do not find China to be the boogieman.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Violating Chinese territorial water is a good thing?

It is international waters, dumb ass!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Not sure how it's expedient to sail through disputed waters when you can just as easily sail around.

It is only disputed by the Chinese, moron.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Of 1,418 Sailors on HMS Hood, Only 3 Survived

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Has nothing to do with expediency, it has to do with not allowing China to make their own rules for the rest of the world.

It's Their Neighborhood and Their Own Monroe Doctrine

 

[JoeB131]

Of 1,418 Sailors on HMS Hood, Only 3 Survived

only 114 out of 2200 men on Bismarck survived.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Because they are claiming way more than they are entitled too in the area.

Since When Does a Giant Have to Share His Yard with Midgets?

 

[Zebra]

German warships set to sail through Taiwan Strait: sources

Beijing says move would be a 'provocation' while analysts warn of confrontation

asia.nikkei.com

Two German warships docked in South Korea are set to sail through the Taiwan Strait over the next few days, sources told Nikkei Asia, as Berlin risks angering Beijing with a move it has not taken in more than two decades.

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"The German Navy is making a visible contribution to maintaining the international rules-based order, as emphasized in its Indo-Pacific guidelines, by passing through the Taiwan Strait,


Good to see. The whole world needs to do things like this.

the ships have started now

 

[Zebra]

Since When Does a Giant Have to Share His Yard with Midgets?

it is not his yard

 

[frigidweirdo]

It is not their territorial waters, thus the point.

We do not get to claim all the water between us and Hawaii as our territorial waters

Well.... the problem is that PRC and Taiwan claim the same area. Also, there's no real thing as "international waters". You can claim 12 nautical miles, and the strait is much bigger than this on both sides. So, technically they can't claim it.

However countries can still claim provocation for many things, almost anything. Look at Putin, he claims provocation if a country he's AT WAR WITH does things he doesn't like.

 

[Grumblenuts]

the ships have started now

Show me sails or there's no sailing going on.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Violating Chinese territorial water is a good thing?

China does it to others all the time

Congratulations on your improved CCP Social Credit Score!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

This is the first time I’ve even heard of a German Navy

I thought that ended with WWII