• purahna@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Alright, it’s way closer to China then it is to the USA, why are there US fighter jets and battleships there at all? Pretty sure the half way point is somewhere past the Philippines.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not familiar with the details but I would imagine it has something to do with the Taiwanese government being okay with it.