Taiwanese politicians make Indian politicians look respectable. At least when the Galwan captives photos were leaked the Indian government/army stayed quiet about it instead of saying that they were photocopied fakes.
Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis
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Taiwanese politicians make Indian politicians look respectable. At least when the Galwan captives photos were leaked the Indian government/army stayed quiet about it instead of saying that they were photocopied fakes.
I respect India a lot more than most US allies. I don't see a US security advisor shouting at their cabinet for 5 hours for buying telecom gear to start with.
The probably are lacking in the other 5 tools as positions players and overall command as pitchers.
Unfortunately they will not be the next Wang Zhenzhi (Sadaharu Oh).
I have respect for the Tico class, but in context of the USN's plan to retire them in the next few years, it seems a little less impressive and almost symbolic in a somewhat more morbid manner than they probably intended.
It's kind of like the Americans are telling the Chinese that with this ship transit, the Americans are determined to return to the previous status quo.
The Chinese? They made a note of it, but far too busy now playing video game with drones.
I guess it is probably better that China simply stalls for time while the USA continues to make mistake after mistake so when China finally acts, it will be that much more devastating. Plus unless a fully armed ship or carrier goes though the strait and actually tries to fire a shot, it’s better to take note of that model so China can sink it at a future date. Besides, their is plenty of opportunity to smack the USA down when winter approaches and the USA/EU is low on real suppliesIt's kind of like the Americans are telling the Chinese that with this ship transit, the Americans are determined to return to the previous status quo.
The Chinese? They made a note of it, but far too busy now playing video game with drones.
I don't read too much into US FONOPS anymore because:
1) Transit in this strait have being overused by the USN that they have diminished their importance.
2) They change no strategic value because warships are monitored and escorted by a larger number of PLAN vessels and the USN vessels sail right through; not stopping or calling port in Taiwan.
3) They offer no tactical or training value for the US crew because sailing through the straits will never happen in times of war.
4) From the 4th Crisis, we've witnessed that USN actually respects the threat within 1000km space from the Chinese coast and stayed clear of it unlike the last Taiwan crisis.
If China still had a brown water navy, I bet USN would bring in 2 CSG near Taiwan but times are different. This is not the 1996 anymore.
But US had to do this which was the only military response option to China changing the status quo permanently.
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USN like: Take it easy, they are retiring soon.
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