Above: H-6K long range nuclear bomber over South China Sea
Ilay Tsukanov – Sputnik News Jan 30, 2021
Last week, US Indo-Pacific Command announced that a Navy carrier strike group led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt had entered the South China Sea for “routine operations”. The move was followed immediately thereafter by China deploying bombers, fighters, and an anti-submarine warfare turboprop for drills off Taiwan.
Last weekend’s Chinese air drills southwest of Taiwan appear to have been a direct response to the arrival of the US carrier group in the region, with radio chatter collected by the US and its allies indicating that Chinese bomber pilots had been given orders to simulate an attack run on the 88,000 tonne carrier using anti-ship missiles, FT reports, citing sources said to be ‘familiar with intelligence’.
Some 28 People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) aircraft, including at least eight H-6 bombers, four J-16 fighters, and a Y-8 anti-submarine warfare plane, entered Taiwan’s so-called ‘Air Defence Identification Zone’ (ADIZ) between 23 and 24 January. The deployment came in the immediate aftermath of the arrival of a US carrier strike group in the South China Sea on 23 January.
China’s DF-21 missile, reportedly capable of sinking US aircraft carriers. Click to enlarge
PLAAF’s maritime strike H-6 bombers can be armed with up to six YJ-12 anti-ship cruise missiles, and/or 6-7 KD-20 air-launched cruise missiles. The former can accelerate to Mach 3 in flight, making them difficult to defend against by carrier groups’ elaborate air and missile defence systems, such as the Aegis or SM-2 fleet area defence missiles.
The Aviationist contributor David Cenciotti points out that while not confirmed to have been involved in last week’s missions, modified H-6s can carry the DF-21D, an air-launched version of the DF-21 ‘Carrier Killer’ anti-ship ballistic missile, which has a range of up to 1,450 km, a speed of up to Mach 6, and a conventional or nuclear payload.
The Pentagon appeared to confirm that the Chinese drills off Taiwan were directed against US forces late Friday, with Indo-Pacific Command spokesman Mike Kafka blasting China’s “attempt to use its military as a tool to intimidate or coerce” others while stressing that the USS Theodore Roosevelt-led carrier strike group had “closely monitored” all Chinese navy and air force activity. “At no time did they pose a threat to US Navy ships, aircraft, or sailors,” Kafka stressed.
Biden vs. Beijing
Despite campaigning on trying to fix the ‘toxic’ China-US relationship that came about under Donald Trump, the Biden administration began ramping up tensions with China almost immediately after coming into office last week. Along with the deployment of the strike group to the South China Sea, Washington publicly promised to help Japan defend the Senkaku Islands, the strategic archipelago of uninhabited rocks contested by Tokyo and Beijing that’s situated in the East China Sea between the Chinese mainland and Japan’s Ryukyu Islands.
Will China slip up like Japan at Pearl Harbour?
Biden’s job as a globalist communist puppet is to destroy the US food supply chain,send American soldier’s to fight a war against China which they are doomed to lose,Speed up the Chinese mass vaccination campaign in America,The vaccines where designed by Chinese bioweapon specialists anyway as a first strike Trojan horse attack on the West.Further more Biden will bankrupt the US economy by borrowing trillions more to line the pockets of the elite.And do nothing to save the US lockdowned economy from emploding soon.With America out of the the way the globalists can have their UN Agenda 21 Technocratic Socialist One World Order backed by China and Russia.
Maybe the US should give up Hawaii and Britain give up the Falklands then both give up Diego Garcia before either get snotty with China over Taiwan which is just over their horizon. The Falklands do not have the same stars and constellations in the sky as Britain and the islands lie on the same tectonic plate as South America, and if not for conquest the islands would be theirs. As for Taiwan China’s elite fled there after Mao’s revolution and the west stir’s up trouble there because of China’s economic power. It has nothing to do with democracy and all to do with western imperialism and colonialism.
If they start war against China it’ll start war with Russia also and they will lose. Maybe then we’ll see our leaders tried for their many war crimes in search of other peoples’ wealth and dominance over them?
as israhell is together with china since at least 50 years and needs
china for its coming JEW WORLD ORDER diktatorship and since
BIDEN is together with israhell it will be only a show game like the
last cold war we had .