Biden’s Message to Beijing: Don’t Expect U.S. to Ease Up Over South China Sea and Taiwan

The Japan Times

06 February 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden has a message for China: Don’t expect any easing up of military operations in the South China Sea or Taiwan Strait. That appears to be the word coming out of Washington after the U.S. Navy conducted its first “freedom of navigation operation” (FONOP) in the disputed South China Sea on Friday and, a day earlier, its first transit of the Taiwan Strait. Dr. Collin Koh, a Research Fellow and maritime security expert at RSIS said all three of the recent U.S. operations appear designed to send signals to both China and American allies and partners in the region. “These back up the Biden administration’s earlier public pronouncements of countering China, especially when it comes to Beijing’s use of coercion in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea,” Koh said.

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