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.
the big black rectangle is the taiwanese air defense id zone (not taiwanese airspace) that china was "guilty" of breaching, a zone incidentally created by the united states after wwii. sharp-eyed readers will note the interesting quirk that it also covers an area of the chinese mainland about 3x the size of taiwan itself
the flight paths are clearly very intentional as a "fuck you your ridiculous air defense zone is bullshit" but theyre also nowhere fucking near taiwan itself, while the western media would have you believe they were flying directly over taipei
remembering the last western media meltdown about chinese provocation with flight paths last year and how they meant china was imminently about to invade taiwan. here are the paths, from official taiwan ministry of defense twitter
the big black rectangle is the taiwanese air defense id zone (not taiwanese airspace) that china was "guilty" of breaching, a zone incidentally created by the united states after wwii. sharp-eyed readers will note the interesting quirk that it also covers an area of the chinese mainland about 3x the size of taiwan itself
the flight paths are clearly very intentional as a "fuck you your ridiculous air defense zone is bullshit" but theyre also nowhere fucking near taiwan itself, while the western media would have you believe they were flying directly over taipei