From Chips Tech to Taiwan Strait
President Bush, likening Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to Adolf Hitler, told Americans on Wednesday “a line has been drawn in the sand” with his decision to send U.S. troops to defend oil-rich Saudi Arabia against Iraqi troops massed on the Saudi border. “Appeasement does not work,” Bush said in a nationally televised speech explaining the troop movements that began Tuesday morning. “As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors .
Source: By JOHN HARWOOD – Published Aug. 9, 1990|Updated Oct. 17, 2005
China and the Taiwan Strait
Seventy-one Chinese military aircraft crossed the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait on Saturday as China began drills around Taiwan in anger at President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The three-day drills, announced the day after Tsai returned from the United States, had been widely expected after Beijing condemned her Wednesday meeting with Speaker Kevin McCarthy in Los Angeles.
China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Taiwan’s government strongly objects to China’s claims.
The Taiwan Strait is a 180-kilometer (110 mi; 97 nmi)-wide strait separating the island of Taiwan and continental Asia.
The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north.
The narrowest part is 130 km (81 mi; 70 nmi) wide.
Said Cherkaoui 24 