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According to Taiwanese media, a French warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait this month
Originally published on AntiWar
The EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has called on European countries to send warships through the Taiwan Strait, patrols that Beijing would view as provocations.
“Europe must in fact be very present on this issue [of Taiwan], which concerns us economically, commercially and technologically,” Borrell wrote in an op-ed for the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.
“That is why I call on European navies to patrol the Taiwan Strait to signify Europe’s commitment to freedom of navigation in this absolutely crucial area. At the same time, we must be vigilant against provocations and overbidding,” he added.
Borrell’s comments appear to be a rebuke to French President Emmanuel Macron’s warning that Europe should not follow the US into a conflict with China over Taiwan.
“The question Europeans need to answer … is it in our interest to accelerate [a crisis] on Taiwan? No. The worse thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the US agenda and a Chinese overreaction,” Macron said earlier this month.
Despite Macron’s comments, Taiwanese media reported that a French warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait from April 9 to 10. The US frequently sends warships through Taiwan Strait, but European transits are rare. The last known French transit through the Strait took place in October 2021.
France has been the only EU country to send warships through the Taiwan Strait in recent years. In 2021, Germany deployed a naval vessel to the Asia Pacific for the first time in almost two decades, which transited the South China Sea but avoided the Taiwan Strait.
Meathead is exactly what Borrell is.
If the EU does this, I highly recommend China open it’s munitions warehouses and drones to Russia.
If I am China that would be already done. They want to play with dragon’s fire, let them understand it.
BorASS should go on a vessel and sit in front…one Chinese missile should greet him
Hypersonic missile cost vs. Battleship cost,
is China controlling this idiot? Hypothetical of course.
Fun fact: Romania’s shitty leadership won’t be able to do this because it’s technically not capable of it! I suspect they will have a stroke by not being able to carry out the wishes of their masters … and this will probably be the next excuse for EU bureaucrats not to accept Romania into the Scengen space, again and again …
Perhaps the Chinese navy should begin patrols of the English Channel, just to balance this
The foolish, old man, Borrell and his golden billion bullshit is futilely raging against “the dying of the light”, not only his own miserable, flickering stump of a candle, ready for the grave but also the collapse of the evil angloZionaZi empire of shit and that bit of it where he vainly toils, the diabolic EUSSR. The fool is not content with getting mauled and clawed by a vastly superior Bear to the mangy Euro Peon poodle, now the demented old codger wants to get burned by the Dragon.
You foolish, degenerate, old clown exit stage at left… and make ready for your grave.
Z
Sometime I wonder, do this crisis actors perform in some movie using their imagination only. They calling on big shots on super powers not understanding art of war.