CHINA boasted it has rehearsed sinking US aircraft carriers using hypersonic missiles as part of a massive war games amid simmering tensions over Taiwan. Beijing’s state controlled media brag…
The "foreign" ships being referred to is clearly a barb at the US - with aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and her strike group just days ago operating in the Philippine Sea.
"We will not be deterred from operating in the seas and the skies of the Western Pacific consistent with international law, as we have for decades, supporting Taiwan and defending a free and open Indo-Pacific," said spokesman John Kirby. During her trip the Speaker of the House of Representatives voiced America’s support for Taiwan and seemed to have called Beijing's bluff after it hinted it might shoot down her plane.
She went on: "My argument is that the more people like Pelosi try to make the US commitment clear, then the more certain the Chinese are of our commitment - and the more likely a Pearl Harbor-style attack is."
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