The latest satellite image shows that China’s Type 094 nuclear submarine crossed the Taiwan Strait on Nov. 29 and headed north from the South China Sea to the Bohai Sea. On the same day, U.S. military aircraft flew over the Taiwan Strait to monitor.
According to a Nov. 30 report by Hong Kong’s EastNet, satellite images show a PLA Type 094 nuclear submarine sailing north from its nuclear submarine base in Yalong Bay, Hainan Province, with a surface ship of unknown type escorting it.
A satellite image released by the South China Sea Strategic Situational Awareness Program, a Chinese think tank, shows a U.S. Navy P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft taking off from its base in Misawa, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, on Nov. 29, flying from Taiwan’s eastern airspace to the south and then crossing the Taiwan Strait from south to north in a rare move.
Meanwhile, PLA military aircraft entered Taiwan’s southwest airspace again on the 29th. Throughout November, PLA military aircraft have been present in the vicinity of Taiwan for 29 days, “without missing a day.”
And before that, on Nov. 26, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen received at the presidential palace a visiting delegation led by Mark Takano, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Nov. 26, “We advise some people on the U.S. side not to play the Taiwan card, because it is a stinking, dead card that will certainly not win and will surely hit the wall and suffer the consequences.”