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Unless the United States sells Taiwan some new fighter jets, the military balance between Taiwan and China will continue to spiral out of control to the detriment of both Taiwanese and U.S. security, 45 U.S. senators wrote on Thursday to President Barack Obama.
China has been demanding the U.S. halt all reconnaissance flights over international waters near its boarder. China’s Defense Ministry told the Global Times newspaper “We demand that the U.S. respect China’s sovereignty and security interests,and take concrete measures to boost a healthy and stable development of military relations.”The only problem is that the US surveillance flights have been operating outside of China’s sovereign territory.
Tensions have increased after a pair of Chinese fighters attempted to intercept and American U-2 flying over the Taiwan Strait which is the waterway separating Taiwan from Mainland China. The U-2 was over international waters and not in China’s airspace. In an effort to halt future surveillance flights China scrambled two Su-27s to intercept the unarmed reconnaissance aircraft. During the intercept one of the Su-27s violated Taiwan’s airspace.
This marked the first time the Chinese crossed into Taiwan airspace since 1999,the last time we had a Democrat in the White House. Ending interceptors to track reconnaissance flights is a routine event. The most famous and tragic intercept occurred in 2001 when a Chinese F-8 collided with an American EP-3. This marked the first time an American asset was attacked by a Wal-Mart supplier. What is being ignored is that a Chinese warplane violated someone else’s sovereign airspace. Despite the rhetoric from Bernanke’s number one debt buyer;China did what it is accusing the US of doing.
We are so disappointed in the United States,” the report quoted an unnamed Taiwan defence official as saying.
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
China told Obama not to help Taiwan. And Obama complied with China willingly, oh so willingly. Now why would they do that? Oh yah, because China is communist and Taiwan is not.
Originally posted by Rockdisjoint
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
China told Obama not to help Taiwan. And Obama complied with China willingly, oh so willingly. Now why would they do that? Oh yah, because China is communist and Taiwan is not.
What does that have to do with Ron Paul's stance on Iran?