by Lewis Page (The Telegraph)
"On Monday, the
and her escorts exited the South China Sea south of Taiwan out into the Western Pacific. Eight more People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) warships sortied past Taiwan to the north, via the Miyako Strait. Altogether the Taiwanese government counted 20 Chinese warships in the waters around it on Tuesday, and many of these are moving to join up with the
Shandong group as this article is written.
It’s the largest carrier group exercise by China seen to date – if it is an exercise.
In fact China would probably see this an operation not an exercise, though probably not a full blown combat op – not this time, anyway. It’s a piece of sabre-rattling intended as a response to several recent US-led manoeuvres with other nations in the region. From the Chinese point of view those came to a head last week with a transit of the Taiwan Strait by a US destroyer and a Canadian frigate, exercising their right of free navigation on the high seas under international law.
Xi Jinping doesn’t much care about international law,
which has been largely torn up by Vladimir Putin.
China doesn’t accept that Taiwan is independent, and Xi doesn’t like the fact that it is a strong industrial democracy which makes much of the world’s supply of microchips. He isn’t pleased that Taiwan makes extensive use of Western-controlled technology in doing this, which nowadays limits the supply of chips to Chinese industry. Not only the US but Britain is particularly involved here, due to the popularity of chip designs licenced from Cambridge-based Arm. The UK makes a lot of money on Taiwanese-fabricated chips..."
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To note (IMHO):
-The Telegraph is a notorious Anglo-Saxon propaganda and misinformation outlet.
-Lewis Page is just another Anglo-Saxon regime propagandist, one of many.
- Anglo-Saxon wars and coups of aggression (e.g. Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine,etc.) are totally ignored by these regime propagandists.
(how can people be so shameless?)
