Chinese Senior Colonel Dai Xu said «we won’t allow U. S. warships to create disturbance» and «should be ready to take over Taiwan.»
A leading Chinese general has urged the military to use force to block U. S. ships from traversing waters claimed by Beijing in the South China Sea and retake Taiwan.
Senior Colonel Dai Xu, who serves as the president of the country’s Marine Institute for Security and Cooperation, on Saturday lashed out against inaction over repeated U. S. Navy trips through disputed territory in the South China Sea, much of which is claimed by Beijing. Speaking at a conference organized by the ruling Communist Party’s official newspaper The Global Times, Dai said that China should attack ships that violate its maritime claims.
«If the U. S. warships break into Chinese waters again, I suggest that two warships should be sent: one to stop it, and another one to ram it,» Dai said during a panel discussion, according to The Global Times . «In our territorial waters, we won’t allow U. S. warships to create disturbance.»
Chinese Type 053 guided-missile frigate Shaoguan is seen attached to a frigate flotilla with the navy under the People’s Liberation Army Southern Theater Command as it fires its main gun at mock targets ashore during a maritime live-fire test from October 24 to 27. China has intensified training in the South China Sea as a warning to the U. S. and Taiwan. Zhao Yang/Chinese People’s Liberation Army
The U. S. Navy has sought to challenge vast Chinese claims to the South China Sea by conducting «freedom of navigation» operations, an activity detailed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ratified by China, but not the U.
