A few days ago when the Taiwan Navy was conducting a fleet defense force exercise in the sea and airspace southwest of Taiwan, another Chinese military aircraft crossed the center line of the strait once to provoke. On the same day, the office of Taiwan’s former president Ma Ying-jeou issued a statement saying that while the communist forces should be condemned for their actions, the U.S. military’s “freedom of navigation mission” in the South China Sea should also be condemned for violating Taiwan’s territorial waters sovereignty. This statement was criticized by a senior advisory member of Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense as “an insensitive situation”.
On the afternoon of February 22, local Time, the Republic of China Navy and Air Force conducted military training in the sea and airspace near the Taiwan Strait. The Taiwan Navy’s “Air Layer Airspace Exercise” was held in the airspace southwest of Taiwan, which is often infested by Chinese Communist military aircraft, and the training content was fleet air defense drills.
However, while the ROC military was holding the exercise, another Chinese military aircraft appeared west of the center line of the strait and even crossed the center line at one point to provoke. At that time, Taiwan’s military aircraft also monitored the air as usual and broadcasted their repulsion.
On the same day, Taiwan’s former President Ma Ying-jeou’s office issued a statement, claiming that while the actions of the Chinese military should be condemned, the government of the Republic of China should not ignore the violation of Taiwan’s territorial waters by the U.S. military in the South China Sea during its “freedom of navigation mission.
The statement from Ma’s office was mainly in response to the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet destroyer USS Russell sailing in the South China Sea on February 17, after the Seventh Fleet’s admiral had said that the ship’s “free navigation” was intended to challenge the excessive claims of the sovereign claimants in the South China Sea. The ship’s “freedom of navigation” was intended to challenge the excessive maritime claims of the claimants in the South China Sea.
Accordingly, Ma Ying-jeou’s office issued a statement that the U.S. military’s so-called “freedom of navigation mission” was tantamount to denying the Republic of China’s sovereignty over the relevant territorial waters in the South China Sea and undermining Taiwan’s rights and interests, and criticized Tsai Ing-wen’s government’s silence on the U.S. side’s relevant statements as “undermining national dignity and sovereignty The government’s silence on the U.S. side’s statement is “detrimental to national dignity and sovereignty,” but also “the wrong way to bet on the U.S. before expressing wrong feelings.
In response, the DPP spokesman said that the U.S. military’s “freedom of navigation mission” in the South China Sea is because the Chinese Communist authorities claim sovereignty over the entire South China Sea and bully their neighbors with competing interests, so the U.S. side is taking such action to deter its unilateral actions.
According to the spokesman, Ma’s aforementioned statement is a clear over-interpretation and “may cause the international community to have a false Perception of Taiwan as ‘friend or foe'”, which makes it easier to question its echoing of the Chinese Communist Party‘s official statement.
On the 23rd, Taiwan’s former Marine colonel and now senior advisory member of the Ministry of National Defense, Song Zhao Wen, also published a report in the Taiwanese media titled “Freedom of navigation mission = encroachment on my sovereignty in the South China Sea? Ma Ying-jeou dares to say something about the communist forces’ disturbance of Dongsha Island? The article criticized the aforementioned statement of Ma Ying-jeou’s office.
The article stated that Ma’s statement that “the Seventh Fleet denies my sovereignty” shows his lack of sufficient understanding of the “seriousness of the enemy situation” facing Taiwan at this stage, and that he “does not know that the Communist forces are actively preparing for the unification of Taiwan. “. At this time, whether or not the U.S. is supportive of Taiwan is a key factor in deterring communist ambitions.
The article reviews the many times the U.S. military has saved Taiwan from crisis after the establishment of the Chinese Communist regime, and then emphasizes that, in the current situation where the Communist Party’s aircraft and ships are substantially disturbing Taiwan, and the civilian and military attacks on Taiwan are becoming increasingly severe, the U.S. continues to send aircraft and ships through the Taiwan Strait to support them with actual troops, which is actually a deterrent against the Chinese Communist Party’s flailing teeth and claws, and “is protecting our Taiping and Dongsha islands “.
The article emphasizes that the U.S. military has long been a quasi-strategic ally of Taiwan, and the allied forces are helping to protect the sovereignty of the Republic of China by sending warships through the Taiwan Strait, rather than denying it. The ROC military’s surveillance system has been able to keep track of U.S. military operations in the East China Sea, Taiwan Sea, and South China Sea, and the U.S. military will also communicate with Taiwan by encrypted link to inform the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense of its actions, and the two sides will rehearse coordinated operations with tactical simulations as the aircraft and ships approach the passage.
Finally, the article criticizes Ma Ying-jeou for “worrying about the sky” and for being “unaware of the situation”. The article again emphasizes that the passage of U.S. planes and ships through the South China Sea “is a demonstration of advanced military technology and weapons systems to the Chinese Communist Party” at a time when the Communist Party is always looking for opportunities to take Taiwan-controlled Taiping Island and Dongsha Island.
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