According to Taiwan’s defense ministry, the ships were traveling south and its personnel was keeping watch, but “the situation was as…
The ongoing operation is being carried out, by the US Navy, by the cruisers Chancellorsville and Antietam, as
confirmed by Reuters.
These activities take 8 to 12 hours to conduct in total and are constantly watched by the Chinese military.
In recent years, American warships have regularly sailed the Taiwan Strait, occasionally joined by vessels
from allies like Britain and Canada. Due to this, China asserts itself, despite Taiwan’s democratically elected
government’s objections.
Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan at the beginning of August inflamed China, which recognized it as an attempt by the
United States to interfere in its domestic affairs.
China then began conducting ongoing military exercises close to the island.
How is the operation being conducted?
According to a statement from the U.S. Navy, these (U.S.) ships passed via a passage in the strait that is outside of any coastal state’s territorial sea.
According to the navy, the operation shows how committed the United States is to an open and free
Indo-Pacific and that it is willing to fly, sail, and conduct operations wherever international law permits.
According to the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese military, the ships were being followed and warned.
“Soldiers in the hall remain on full alert and are ready to prevent any instigation at that time,” the statement stated.
According to Taiwan’s defense ministry, the ships were traveling south and its personnel was keeping watch, but “the situation was as normal.”
Since the defeated government of the Republic of China fled to Taiwan in 1949 following a defeat in a civil
war with the communists, who went on to create the People’s Republic of China, the narrow Taiwan Strait has
been a recurrent source of military conflict.
In the weeks after Pelosi’s visit, five additional U.S. congressmen made their way to Taiwan; in response,
China’s military increased its exercises close to the island.
Despite pressure from China to stop the visits, Senator Marsha Blackburn, a member of the Senate Commerce and Armed Services committees, made her third visit to Taiwan this month on Thursday.
