CV-16 Liaoning (001 carrier) Thread II ...News, Views and operations

[Jeff Head]

Several excellent [pictures of the PLAN Carrier battle group, a couple of a combined carrier-amphibious task force...a large PLAN grouping:

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Before 2010, if someone had told you that between 2015 and 2018 you'd be seeing these types of pictures regularly...they would have scoffed at it (except for a lot of us here on SD).

Well, there's no scoffing now.

In the last two pics there is an LPD, Type 071 following the carrier.

 

[asif iqbal]

Actully guys if you look very closely there is in fact 3 x carriers followed by 3 x LPD

 

[Jura The idiot]

now noticed Taiwan shadows China carrier group after Xi warning
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Taiwan has sent ships and aircraft to shadow a Chinese aircraft carrier group through the narrow Taiwan Strait, its defense ministry said on Wednesday, after Chinese President Xi Jinping offered his strongest warning against Taiwan separatism to date.

China claims Taiwan as its sacred territory and considers the self-ruled island a wayward province, which Xi said on Tuesday would face the “punishment of history” for any attempt at separatism.

Taiwan’s defense ministry said the carrier group, led by China’s sole operational aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, entered the waterway late on Tuesday, but kept on its western side.

By midday on Wednesday it has left Taiwan’s air defense identification zone heading southwest, the ministry said, adding it looked like China was conducting drills.

Taiwan’s military sent ships and aircraft to shadow the carrier group the entire way, but spotted nothing out of the ordinary and people in Taiwan should not be concerned, it added.

China’s Defence Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In January, the Liaoning sailed twice through the Taiwan Strait, in what China said was part of routine drills.

Taiwan says China has ramped up military exercises around the island in the past year or so. The island is one of China’s most sensitive issues and a potential military flashpoint.

China’s hostility towards Taiwan has risen since the 2016 election of President Tsai Ing-wen, a member of the island’s pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party.

China suspects Tsai wants to push for formal independence, which would cross a red line for Communist Party leaders in Beijing, though Tsai has said she wants to maintain the status quo and is committed to ensuring peace.

China’s Taiwan Affairs Office on Monday expressed anger at Taiwan Premier William Lai’s description of the island as a sovereign independent country, calling it a “serious provocation” and denying that Taiwan was, or could ever be, one.

China has also been infuriated by a law signed last week by U.S. President Donald Trump that encourages the United States to send senior officials to Taiwan to meet Taiwanese counterparts, and vice versa.

U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Alex Wong is in Taiwan this week, where he is set to speak at a business event in Taipei later on Wednesday with Tsai.

 

[Air Force Brat]

now noticed Taiwan shadows China carrier group after Xi warning
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and this is why I am very certain that the US will "shore up" its commitment to Taiwan, in truth we have to after all that "island building" in the SCS, which along with China's most muscular military presence ever assembled, just offshore threatening....its all just rather too obvious to ignore!

and for all the fans of that, China is the one attempting to change the "status quo", likely in order to provoke a response from Taiwan and the US??

 

[jobjed]

and this is why I am very certain that the US will "shore up" its commitment to Taiwan, in truth we have to after all that "island building" in the SCS, which along with China's most muscular military presence ever assembled, just offshore threatening....its all just rather too obvious to ignore!

and for all the fans of that, China is the one attempting to change the "status quo", likely in order to provoke a response from Taiwan and the US??

The status quo was the situation before your country was even a colony: a China that was whole and prosperous. Once Formosa is reincorporated under a centralised leadership, the status quo will be restored.

 

[manqiangrexue]

and this is why I am very certain that the US will "shore up" its commitment to Taiwan, in truth we have to after all that "island building" in the SCS, which along with China's most muscular military presence ever assembled, just offshore threatening....its all just rather too obvious to ignore!

and for all the fans of that, China is the one attempting to change the "status quo", likely in order to provoke a response from Taiwan and the US??

Yeah, the US will do as much as it did in Crimea and in the SCS LOL. America is contractually obligated to defend Ukraine; are you aware?

The "status quo" is not a solution; it means that the problem is to be solved in the future. The status quo will not be tolerated by China indefinitely and the ROC must rejoin the PRC by peaceful means if possible, but by any means necessary. If the US feels "provoked" by this domestic Chinese issue, it is because the US is conflicted by its own policy of officially recognizing Taiwan as a part of China while having an uncontrollable knee-jerk reaction to cause trouble for China due to fear of its rise.

 

[A.Man]

and this is why I am very certain that the US will "shore up" its commitment to Taiwan, in truth we have to after all that "island building" in the SCS, which along with China's most muscular military presence ever assembled, just offshore threatening....its all just rather too obvious to ignore!

and for all the fans of that, China is the one attempting to change the "status quo", likely in order to provoke a response from Taiwan and the US??

Old man, you need to wake up.

 

[vincent]

and this is why I am very certain that the US will "shore up" its commitment to Taiwan, in truth we have to after all that "island building" in the SCS, which along with China's most muscular military presence ever assembled, just offshore threatening....its all just rather too obvious to ignore!

and for all the fans of that, China is the one attempting to change the "status quo", likely in order to provoke a response from Taiwan and the US??

Why doesn't Uncle Sam send troops to protect the Catalan people? They voted democratically for independent after all.

Last I check, Uncle Sam is the one who made tons of moves regarding Taiwan. Please look into the mirror before accusing China of changing the status quo

As for island building, didn't know it is a crime and Uncle Sam somehow became the judge, jury and executioner. If so, please go kick Vietnam and Phillipines's asses first because they have done the most “island building” in terms of the number of islands they have squatted on

 

[Jura The idiot]

Yesterday at 7:57 AM

now noticed Taiwan shadows China carrier group after Xi warning
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now

"Underlining that threat, Taiwan sent ships and aircraft earlier on Wednesday to shadow a Chinese aircraft carrier group through the narrow Taiwan Strait, its defense ministry said." etc.:

U.S. official says support of Taiwan has never been stronger
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[Jura The idiot]

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somehow related is
Nouvelle sortie du porte-avions chinois en mer de Chine méridionale

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which I now noticed through Twitter:

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Hendrik...

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might want to run the translation