China has accused Canada of carrying out “malicious and provocative” actions in the South China Sea, after the Canadian Navy said Chinese fighter jets endangered a helicopter in two close intercepts above international waters.
The comments come after CNN revealed last week that a Chinese warplane fired flares in front of a Canadian military helicopter on October 29, an operation that Canadian military officers said was reckless and could have resulted in the downing of the aircraft.
The incident was the second of two “unsafe” encounters the Canadian chopper had on that day with Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy J-11 fighters, which got as close as 100 feet (30 meters) from the helicopter, Maj. Rob Millen, air officer aboard the Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Ottawa, told CNN in an interview on the warship.
Daily reminder that Western media reports on this to make you fear/hate China.
Man the worst part of lemmy is all the absolutely brain dead China apologists, you people are a cancer spreading bullshit propaganda. Fuck off loser.
Daily response that China’s still doing it, regardless of why it’s being reported.
As an American I’m amused you think we are afraid of China. I wish we got along better with them but the idea that were at home hiding under our beds worried about China’s military is silly. We’ve both got enough nukes to end each other and China lacks the ability to project its conventional military power much farther than its bogus, ever shifting, and illegal borders.
If China doesn’t want the smoke then it needs to quit behaving like a belligerent dingus in the South China Sea.
Classic America-centric tomfoolery.
I’m Australian, mate. If anyone were able to tell you something shifty’s going on with China, it would be us. We’re kinda the English-speaking experts on the topic.
China has been fucking around for a while now. One of these times they’re going to step over that line and start something they wish they hadn’t.
I kinda hope they do and the US decides it’s had enough and declares war and launches the fleets to force Xi to apologise or get him ousted by the rest of the party. Obviously don’t want a real war, just real looking enough to freak out the CCP into backing down.
The outcome of that would more likely be war than a restructure of Chinese government.
And such a war would certainly make WWII look like babies at play.
Almost seems like china wants it. Their pilots are trained, their pilots act like infants… its a safe bet they’re trained to act like infants.
We need to figure out ways to reorient China’s ambitions from an impossible ask - Taiwan, the 9-dash-line, and the South China Sea, and point out the obvious low hanging fruit, that wouldn’t require force projection / airborne and naval landings, and a world class navy to oppose literally every other country in the pacific, and invest those resources where they could gain massive ground, repatriate ethnic chinese and repatriate Chinese cities that they were forced to give up and still want back, like Vladivostok. Russia is sick. China is already pushing for greater influence in the -stan countries - the move only requires a will for China to head north, capturing enormous amounts of land, resources and new citizens / customers for it’s industries. And unlike the Pacific, I don’t know that many will want to save them after the last few years… I don’t see Belarus scrambling resources to send to defend Irkutsk.
I think I’m old enough to realize none of this matters.
They should have send an air balloon instead…
