A Chinese aircraft carrier sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Friday, Taiwan's Defence Ministry said, just hours before the Chinese and U.S. presidents were due to talk.
A source with direct knowledge of the matter, who was not authorised to speak to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity,
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Told Reuters the carrier Shandong sailed close to the Taiwan-controlled island of Kinmen, which sits directly opposite the Chinese city of Xiamen
Around 10:30 a.m. the CV-17 appeared around 30 nautical miles to the southwest of Kinmen, and was photographed by a passenger on a civilian flight," the source said, referring to the Shandong's official service number
Kinmen is where the Nationalists stopped the Communists. China tried to invade, but their invasion force wasn't a fleet of battleships and landing craft like at Normandy it was...every fishing boat for 100 miles up and down the coast. Just about when they were going to land, a Nationalist patrol set off one of their own land mines, causing all of the beach guards to send up flares, spotting the invasion "fleet". Every pillbox opened up and started wreaking havoc.
Many troops still reached shore, however. An M3 Stuart light tank, stuck in the sand the day before, was still on the beach. The crew got it moving but soon ran out of ammunition. As the invaders had no anti-tank weapons, the tank simply drove up and down the beach GTA-style, running over every soldier in its path. It earned the title "Bear of Kinmen" for its service and you can still see it today if you visit the island (like I did).
A Nationalist landing ship wasn't supposed to be on Kinmen, but had gotten a delay in its return to Taiwan by radioing in to base claiming it had a broken engine. The real reason was because it was illegally loading up with smuggled coconut oil. It pulled a homer by being there with its minimal guns which were still better than the fishing boats' zero guns. It sank dozens of them and prevented a second wave of invaders from being ferried from the mainland, which would probably have won the battle.
Lmao this is like when Western media runs a headline about a Chinese plane "violating Taiwan airspace." Then you read the body and it wasn't airspace, it was the Air Defence ID Zone. Then you look up a map of the ADIZ and a huge chunk of it covers Southern China.
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Let's check the map
https://www.google.com/maps/search/kinmen/@24.4712622,118.5626342,10z
30 nautical miles to the Southwest.... Looks like a Chinese carrier was spotted near the coast of China. How provocative!
Kinmen is where the Nationalists stopped the Communists. China tried to invade, but their invasion force wasn't a fleet of battleships and landing craft like at Normandy it was...every fishing boat for 100 miles up and down the coast. Just about when they were going to land, a Nationalist patrol set off one of their own land mines, causing all of the beach guards to send up flares, spotting the invasion "fleet". Every pillbox opened up and started wreaking havoc.
Many troops still reached shore, however. An M3 Stuart light tank, stuck in the sand the day before, was still on the beach. The crew got it moving but soon ran out of ammunition. As the invaders had no anti-tank weapons, the tank simply drove up and down the beach GTA-style, running over every soldier in its path. It earned the title "Bear of Kinmen" for its service and you can still see it today if you visit the island (like I did).
A Nationalist landing ship wasn't supposed to be on Kinmen, but had gotten a delay in its return to Taiwan by radioing in to base claiming it had a broken engine. The real reason was because it was illegally loading up with smuggled coconut oil. It pulled a homer by being there with its minimal guns which were still better than the fishing boats' zero guns. It sank dozens of them and prevented a second wave of invaders from being ferried from the mainland, which would probably have won the battle.
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The Kinmen islands are a very strange place considering their geographic position
Interestingly, China doesn't even consider them part of Taiwan (the province). They're part of Fujian, the mainland province right next door.
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Lmao this is like when Western media runs a headline about a Chinese plane "violating Taiwan airspace." Then you read the body and it wasn't airspace, it was the Air Defence ID Zone. Then you look up a map of the ADIZ and a huge chunk of it covers Southern China.
The US literally has a naval base and a prison camp on the territory of a country we've been openly hostile to for 60 years.
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