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After months of secretive planning, and preparing the crew to defend their ship if necessary, the Royal Canadian Navy has transited the Taiwan Strait.

As HMCS Ottawa entered the busy and strategically critical body of water at sunrise, it was flanked by three Chinese warships armed with missiles and torpedoes. They mirrored Ottawa's moves for the entire 17-hour crossing.

Canada made the journey along with the USS Ralph Johnson, a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer, in what both countries describe as a freedom of navigation exercise.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Except that's wrong because no one is claiming it belongs to anyone but Taiwan because it does belong to Taiwan. Canada isn't doing this because they think they own the waters, they're doing it because they're allies of Taiwan and they're just defending their allies from being attacked by China

Canada is actually allied with countries on the other side of the planet. China isn't allied with anyone but Russia because no one wants China anywhere near them

Tying this to China's own internal problems is exactly what this is about because millions of people in China are dying due to the flooding to and the typical incompetence of the government and the CCP doesn't like when people see what really happens in China. They constantly try to divert attention away from serious disasters happening within their own borders.