Chinese Aircraft Carrier Sails Through Taiwan Strait as US, Philippines Start Drills Near Taiwan

The exercises are in the crucial Bashi Channel, where America and allies could block the CCP’s attempt to break through the First Island Chain, analysts said.

Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning (R) arrives in Hong Kong waters on July 7, 2017. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images

Chinese regime aircraft carrier Liaoning transited the Taiwan Strait on April 20 as the annual U.S.-Philippine joint military exercise began simulating “real-world” combat on an island near Taiwan.

Analysts told The Epoch Times that the island overlooks the crucial channel where the United States and its allies could block the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) attempt to breach the first island chain, and that a confrontation could escalate into a multinational war.