US signal to China: Stay away from Taiwan during Ukraine crisis

With two nuclear powered aircraft carrier strike groups patrolling the Philippines Sea and another one forwardly stationed to Yokosuka, Japan, the US has transferred a strong communication to China to stay down from Taiwan while the former is locked with Russia over Ukraine.

The PLA on Sunday responded to the massive US nonmilitary drills by transferring as numerous as 39 warplanes, largely fighters like J-10 and J-16, into Taiwan’s south-western air defense identification zone (ADIZ) as pressures escalated over the breakaway islet country. The Taiwan air force proceeded combat air command and actuated face to air bullet systems to discourage the aggressive PLA Air Force. This is the first time after October 2021 that the PLA has responded to US drills with soThis large-scale Taiwan airspace transgression by Chinese fighter took place when the US Navy has three aircraft carrier strike groups in support of Taipei and freedom of navigation operations in Philippines Sea. While USS Carl Vinson and Abraham Lincoln are patrolling near Taiwan, the USS Ronald Reagan is on buttress near Yokosuka in Japan. The US has also large scale marine presence with presence of USS Essex amphibious ready group and USS America expeditionary strike group joining the aircraft carriers. Patrolling with the massive carrier force is Japanese Hyuga class copter destroyer with USS strike groups planting as numerous as 26 F-35 fifth generation fighters The US Navy make-up near Taiwan is a clear communication to China that it can not have a free pass to Taipei while Washington is locked up in a battle with Russia over Ukraine. “ The communication to China is that US has not taken off its eyes from Beijing and wants PLA to stay down from Taiwan till similar time the Ukraine extremity gets resolved,” said a former Indian minister to US. numerousfighters.Since the US-Russia escalation over Ukraine has started, numerous believed that this would give President Xi Jinping a free pass to aggressively pursue what China calls its core interests. The Biden administration has this month formerly conveyed to China that it’s watching PLA make-up in Ladakh as the India-China stand-off on the Line of Factual Control ( LAC) completes alternate downtime on Tibetan table.