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On rare China visit, Taiwan’s opposition leader calls for reconciliation

KMT chief Cheng Li-wun, the party's first leader to visit China in a decade, hopes to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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On rare China visit, Taiwan’s opposition leader calls for reconciliation​

Taiwan’s main opposition leader has used a high-profile visit to China to push for dialogue with Beijing, invoking the legacy of revolutionary figure Sun Yat-sen amid rising cross-strait tensions.

Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of the Kuomintang (KMT) party, laid a wreath at Sun’s mausoleum in Nanjing on Wednesday, in a gesture steeped in historical symbolism.
 
Hegseth just hosted Indonesian counterpart and announced a “Major Defense Cooperation Partnership”. The Strait of Hormuz is 2nd highest volume oil chokepoint on Earth.
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What’s the 1st? The Strait of Malacca, INDONESIA (80% of China’s oil imports pass through here).Global oil shipping chokepoints are being secured by the US MIL and their partners.
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Washington’s new Major Defense Cooperation Partnership with Indonesia is being sold in the usual diplomatic euphemisms: capacity building, maritime security, joint training. Strip away the boilerplate and you see something far sharper. The agreement’s focus on maritime domain awareness, subsurface and autonomous systems, and special forces training is about giving Indonesia and by extension the U.S. and its allies, a far richer picture of everything that moves between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, and greater ability to shape it in a crisis. As with Trump’s broader Indo‑Pacific posture, this is one more move to reassert the US as the pre‑eminent maritime power of the age, and to ensure China feels that reality every time a tanker clears the Strait.
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Rather than chasing dominance on land, Washington is tightening its grip on the sea lanes and straits through which China’s economic lifeblood must flow. Chinese planners contemplating a crisis over Taiwan, the South China Sea or even a clash around Hormuz now have to assume that traffic through Malacca and its alternatives will unfold under a web of sensors and partnerships that lean, in practice if not in rhetoric, toward Washington.
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Another move by President Trump, in other words. From rebuilding American shipyards to pouring money into Indo‑Pacific maritime forces, the pattern is clear: the United States intends to remain a maritime superpower, and to make China live with Hu Jintao’s old nightmare instead of escaping it. Mahan would have recognized the logic instantly: in the end, it is the power that commands the sea, and the straits, that sets the terms for everyone else.
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Panama Canal, Venezuela, Strait of Hormuz, Iran, Straits of Malacca, Indonesia, South China Sea, Strait of Taiwan
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You guys starting to figure it out yet :cool:
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China moves to block entrance to disputed South China Sea shoal: Report
Philippine officials said China installed a 352-meter barrier as 10 coast guard vessels patrolled the disputed shoal.
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Satellite imagery from April 10 and 11 shows China deployed ships and a floating barrier to block the entrance of the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
Beijing has maintained a presence at the shoal since seizing it in 2012, though the traditionally rich fishing ground falls entirely within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone.
Admiral Jay Tarriela, Philippine Coast Guard spokesperson, confirmed China installed a 352m floating barrier on April 10 and 11, while ten Chinese coast guard vessels were sighted between April 5 and 12.
Military engagements have soared under Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, who pivoted closer to the United States; thousands of troops are set to begin large-scale exercises across the archipelago in April.
Diplomats and analysts fear these long-running confrontations could degenerate into armed conflict, particularly as concerns mount that the United States is distracted by the Iran conflict.

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China moves to block entrance to disputed South China Sea shoal: Report

China is employing ships and a barrier to tighten control of the entrance to the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea amid roiling tension with the Philippines over the disputed feature, satellite imagery obtained by Reuters shows.
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What's the "so what?" from this Scarborough Shoal action?

I thought the PRC has been in control of it since the 2012 standoff?
 
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What's the "so what?" from this Scarborough Shoal action?

I thought the PRC has been in control of it since the 2012 standoff?
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I think its in the Philipines? EZone
A blocking action forms controll of another nation ecnomic zone,

I think, unless something changed(cant keep up with who is friend or ally lately) phillipibes is allied to USA🤔

Kinda like blocking oil in Cuba, blocking Venezuela, blocking horuz,
 
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Japan and Australia moved to deepen defense industrial cooperation on April 18 in Melbourne, tying it directly to Australia’s General Purpose Frigate program and signing the “Mogami Memorandum” aboard JS Kumano. This is a real shipbuilding and sustainment signal, not ceremonial noise.

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This is based on Japan MOD’s official framing. The key signal is industrial and naval alignment, not an immediate force posture change.

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China’s official messaging sharpened on April 18 as the PLA Eastern Theater Command announced a joint readiness patrol around Taiwan, while Beijing separately condemned the April 17 Taiwan Strait transit by Japanese destroyer JS Ikazuchi. The military action and political narrative were clearly paired.

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Taiwan’s MND said it detected 15 PLA aircraft, 5 PLAN ships, and 1 official vessel around Taiwan from 22-23 April, with 14 of the 15 aircraft entering the southwestern ADIZ.

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This is routine PLA pressure, not a one-off spike. The actual signal is the scale of the ADIZ penetration and Taiwan’s stated response with CAP aircraft, navy ships, and coastal missile systems.

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And would any European countries or Australia, India or the Philippians help? Would Russia pick a side or stay neutral?
Let's hope it never comes to this because if it does it's going to be a real mess. IMO
Sanae Takaichi said that if China used warships and force to blockade Taiwan, Japan could classify it as a "survival-threatening situation."
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william said:
And would any European countries or Australia, India or the Philippians help? Would Russia pick a side or stay neutral?
Let's hope it never comes to this because if it does it's going to be a real mess. IMO
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There are alliances yet to be tested, maybe alliances should thrive instead of torn from within. Curentlly , if i was the enemy i would feel real comfortable that what was once great alliances have been thrown completely under the bus!

China will soon test the water…they have already tested strategy, blockades are considered legal, as tested by other nations,
and…. Russia would jump in most likely N Korea

We are no longer in a world of rules, just who is the biggest thug🤔💵💵💵💵💵
 
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