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China claims ownership of the Taiwan Strait. Canada just sailed a warship through it (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After months of secretive planning, and preparing the crew to defend their ship if necessary, the Royal Canadian Navy has transited the Taiwan Strait.

As HMCS Ottawa entered the busy and strategically critical body of water at sunrise, it was flanked by three Chinese warships armed with missiles and torpedoes. They mirrored Ottawa's moves for the entire 17-hour crossing.

Canada made the journey along with the USS Ralph Johnson, a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer, in what both countries describe as a freedom of navigation exercise.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Canada doesn't recognize Taiwan as a country. How anyone in Canada's leadership thought this was a good idea, I don't know.
There's an order of operations that should go down before going through.
First recognize Taiwan.
Then acknowledge their territorial waters.
Instead, we get this cosplay of an act

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

More like territorial waters is 12 nautical miles for the coast so even if Taiwan was considered part of mainland China, the straight is like 90nm wide so a majority of it should be freely navigable by any ship. China doesn't think so and claims the entire thing as territorial waters.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

China's claims are absud, even extending to waters bordering the Philippines. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=spratly+islands&ia=web&iaxm=maps&strict_bbox=0

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Taiwan claims those waters as well...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Most people don't understand that both People's Republic of China (“China”) and Republic of China (“Taiwan”) claim the same borders and territory and pretend “Taiwan” is being opressed.

I am sure if the ROC defeated PRC in the civil war the issues of Tibet, the strait and the South China Sea would be just given to China because China would be a US ally and NATO member along side being a permanent UN security seat member

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

China would be a US ally and NATO member

I didn't know China was located in the Atlantic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Correct. They'd be a Major non-NATO ally:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_non-NATO_ally

On a close relationship like Japan and Republic of Korea

But other than that, my point still stands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

By the same definition, crossing the median in a plane shouldn't be worthy of mention.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

canada is a nato nation and nato recognized taiwan as an external ally sooo..

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It’s not really a cosplay if the missiles are real

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If we simply reject that fighting for Taiwan's sovereignty was the sole motivation for this action, I think things make a lot more sense.