The Chinese army says that his armed forces have followed Australian and Canadian warships and warned them who sailed through the sensitive Taiwan street in a movement that convicted it as a “provocation”.
The Eastern Theater Command of the People Liberation Army said that the ships, the Canadian frigate Ville de Quebec and the Australian guided rocket destroyer Brisbane, were busy with “problems and provocation”.
Chinese aerial and marine troops followed and warned the two ships and “responded effectively,” said the order in a statement.
“The actions of the Canadians and Australians send the wrong signals and increase the safety risks,” it added.
A spokesperson said that the Canadian armed forces do not comment on sailing plans for currently deployed ships.
The spokesperson said the Ville de Quebec is used as part of Operation Horizon, intended to promote peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.
Ville de Quebec was active in the Filipino economic zone earlier this week and participated in freedom of navigation, according to a Canadian government declaration.
The Australian Defense Force (ADF) in a statement said that the HMAS Brisbane carried out a “routine transit” by the Strait of Taiwan, “in accordance with international law”.
“Australian ships and planes will continue to exercise freedom of navigation and maintain international law, in particular the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,” a spokesperson for ADF SBS News said in a statement.
China’s by the state supported newspaper The Global Times reported on Saturday about the mission on Saturday.
The Ministry of Defense of Taiwan said in a statement that it is closely monitoring the activity in the street and “sends the correct air and maritime forces to guarantee the safety and stability of the Waterweg, which separates communist China from the Democratic island of Taiwan.
The Navy of the United States and occasionally are sent from Allied countries such as Canada, the United Kingdom and France the street, which they consider an international waterway, about once a month.
Taiwan also regards it as an international waterway.
China, which Taiwan regards his own, says that the strategic waterway is part of its territorial waters.
The government of Taiwan rejects territorial claims from civil servants in Beijing.
China has raised his military pressure against the island for the past five years, including the organization of war games near Taiwan.
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