The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China announced this week that it was actively conducting joint patrols alongside Russia close to the Alaskan coast. The PLA also vowed that the provocative activity will only increase and criticized the United States for its apparent hypocrisy in demanding similar freedom of navigation patrols across the South China Sea.
“The Chinese Navy may conduct further patrols like these in the future, either by itself or in collaboration with other nations.” Fu Qianshao, a Chinese military specialist, said, “The Americans need to become accustomed to it.”
“The South China Sea as well as the Taiwan Straits are only two places where the US regularly sends warships and airplanes for so-called freedom of navigation operations,” Fu added.
In China’s automated state media, this has grown to be a very hot topic of conversation. The Global Times raged that America holds no right to lodge complaints when it continues to keep “trespassing through Chinese territory’s waters lacking permission” – referring to China’s illegal claims for jurisdiction over the entirety of the South China Sea – and rejected American cautionary statements that China had crossed a “red line” by carrying out military drills close to Alaska.
“This coordinated patrol between China and Russia is a signal to the US that both countries are fully capable of protecting their interests and share a similar interest in regional security. The Pacific Ocean is sufficiently large to allow for the peaceful coexistence of several nations.” The Global Times fumed, three paragraphs after protesting that every single American ship in the area known as the South China Sea serves as “trespassing” violating Beijing’s absurd territorial claims, “claiming that it does not belong exclusively to the US and emphasizing that the US does not have the ultimate word for the region.”
“The US will only discover that it’s hegemony and dictatorial control over the entire globe will face a growing number of concerns and problems as the world moves toward multipolarity. Eventually, the U.S. will be forced to adjust,” the Global Times said, repeating a line from Fu Qianshao.
China claims that the United States should “get used to” a fleet of roughly a dozen Russian as well as Chinese warships that passed by the Aleutian Islands this past week, drawing a reaction from American planes and destroyers.
The united fleet “practiced joint tactical maneuvers, performed communication training, while carrying out chopper landings and taking off using each other’s ship decks,” the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
According to Russian government authorities, the flotilla was trained for “hunting and ultimately destroying a hypothetical enemy’s submarine.” Among the Russian contingent were two “large anti-submarine combat ships.”
The Russian-Chinese flotilla, according to the Pentagon, continued to be in “international seas” and wasn’t “considered to pose a threat.”
The Pentagon’s press secretary, Brig. General Paty Ryder, stated this week that “they are allowed to carry out exercises in international airspace as well as international waters, like any other nation.”
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