Posted on 07/15/2023 8:26:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A US Navy spy plane flew over the Taiwan Strait on Thursday as China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was conducting drills to the south of Taiwan.
The US Navy’s Seventh Fleet announced the flight of the Navy P-8A Poseidon, and Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said the plane flew on the south side of the median line, an unofficial barrier that separates the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
China said it tracked the US aircraft and accused the US of hyping the incident. "The troops of the PLA Eastern Theater Command have tracked and monitored the US aircraft in the whole course, and handled it in line with laws and regulations," said a spokesperson for the PLA’s Eastern Theater Command.
The US frequently sails warships through the Taiwan Strait, which China views as provocations. Surveillance flights have typically been less frequent but are becoming more common. The last known US flight over the Taiwan Strait took place in April.
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said PLA ships and planes conducted a third day of drills on Thursday. The ministry also said it detected Chinese aircraft crossing the median line, a barrier the PLA used to avoid but now regularly crosses.
The PLA started regularly crossing the median line after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) visited Taiwan in August 2022.
Her visit provoked China’s largest-ever military exercises around the island, and the PLA has kept up the pressure as the US and Taiwan continue to boost military and diplomatic ties.
Call up another 3,000…
Since when is a sub hunter aircraft a “spy plane”?
When it suits the media narrative.
If the people of Taiwan are willing to put up a stout fight to defend their liberty and freedom, China, almost regardless of what the US does will never attack across 90 miles of open ocean. As the Russians learned in Ukraine, there is no guarantee that China’s combat inexperienced “one child” army with its locally produced untested ships, missiles and planes would be successful. Comrade Xi knows that failure would cause huge casualties, be very bad for himself, his family and sycophants. There would be political, economic and social instability within China. There could even be a military coup against “corrupt communists”. If however the Chinese sense or believe that Taiwan won’t fight, the “hawks” in the military just might force Xi to do a Putin. The US is not the major factor determining their decision.
Freedom of the seas when passing through straights is not “provocation.” Provocation is when a country attempts to control the shipping channels by claiming there is a barrier running down the channel.
screw that, send a few hundred spy ballons over Bejing and the whole country see how long they stay afloat
Headline makes it sound like the U.S. plane was the provoker. I’m not sure that’s what the writer meant.
I’ve had my nose in a book all day. Did I see somewhere that we splashed a PLA-Navy helicopter ?
Huh?
Stupid title of this article. If our plane stayed on the proper side of the dead facto Straits dividing line, it did not provoke anything.
Red Chinese spy balloons, ships nearly ramming US Navy vessels, and planes nearly hitting US unarmed aircraft are provocations.
Get the story straight.
Right! The killed, 1 Million Americans, and then invaded our skies,and we worry about Ukraine!
“Provocation”? I’m sure if we avoid the international waters off the coast of China that the CCP will respect our self control. /S
This. Don’t know how accurate it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2l7rmg_hRE&list=WL&index=92&t=288s
Provocation of who?
Some of us are “America First”.
These idiots are “BLAME America First”.
A plague upon their house.
No harm in just looking’ around.
Too bad if Chi-nahh don’t like it.
>> Since when is a sub hunter aircraft a “spy plane”?
Since libertarians.
(Pffffffft... hey man, don’t bogart that joint...)
>> Headline makes it sound like the U.S. plane was the provoker. I’m not sure that’s what the writer meant.
I’m pretty sure that’s EXACTLY what the writer meant.
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