foreign vessel
if only this article were more vague
I’m gonna irresponsibly wager it was a Japanese ship doing intentional provocation modeled after Australian and American naval games of chicken.
Gonna see if I can find out more tho. Doubt it was Australia but I’d like to know if it was, we’ve done it before.
Edit: There’s PLA drone footage online from the last 24 hours apparently tracking a Japanese Destroyer moving through the taiwan strait. Haven’t confirmed its related but I’ll take my winnings whenever.
Hopefully China is realising based on *gestures at everything else* that they can in fact stand on business with the south china sea and the rest of the world will not implicitly support American primacy in these matters.
Not to say its necessarily an American boat they drove away, the west is always pulling these naval fake-outs for the sake of testing China’s response and to generally undermine their legitimacy. It’s so provocative.
I’m sure some policy wonk would know better to me its childish and petulant.
It does look like China is sending a message here, and they know they have a very strong hand now with the debacle in Iran. Everyone can see that American security umbrella is worthless now. On top of that, China showed how fragile US economy is during the tariff war. Being assertive now is the right move because the myths about American economy and military might have been dispelled, and that’s still fresh in everyone’s minds.
