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Taiwan, the South China Sea ... the risk of destabilizing incidents is increasing between Beijing and Washington

2021-02-17T16:28:42.415Z


In these waters claimed 90% by Beijing, rival navies gauge each other, rub shoulders with ever more assertive determination, far from the cameras.


In the cockpit of the H6 bomber, flying over the Taiwan Strait, the pilot's voice crackles, ordering

the aircraft carrier

USS Theodore Roosevelt

to be

“locked”

.

The air-sea missiles of this large gray eagle of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), capable of carrying atomic weapons, simulate an attack on the American steel juggernaut, maneuvering more than 400 km away , in the South China Sea.

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This communication worthy of a bad disaster film, intercepted by the big ears of the Pentagon around January 23 and reported by the

Financial Times

, triggered the anger of the American military.

They denounced a

“series of aggressive and destabilizing actions”

by Beijing, in full military gesticulation off the rebel island, on the eve of Joe Biden's presidency.

The day after the inauguration of the new White House host, the Chinese military deployed thirteen strategic fighters and bombers in the Taiwan air defense zone, to agitate

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Source: lefigaro

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