Taiwan is not far from the four new bases that the American armed forces will be able to use in the north and west of the Philippines.
An agreement between Washington and Manila was concluded in early April to allow the extension of the defense treaty linking the two countries.
We are talking about an airport, land that can be used for training or a port that can accommodate naval capabilities.
If one day Beijing decided on a military operation in the region, they could obviously serve as support for a response from the United States.
As China deployed three warships across the strait on Thursday to protest the meeting between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy, military tension seems to have become permanent between Beijing and ancient Formosa.
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A kind of countdown even seems to have already started before a Chinese intervention against the island, which President Xi Jinping has promised...
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