China has officially downgraded its diplomatic ties with Lithuania to the "charge d'affaires" level, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Sunday, in protest after Taiwan established a de facto embassy in Vilnius.
china said most of the china sea is its sovereign territory so operateing there is a way for the u.s. to show the world that it sees these as international waters that could be used and on top of this sub mean operating there, there is also a multi-national show of force led by the u.k. called carrier strike group 21 that was just operating in the south china sea. in terms of the tension between beijing and washington over taiwan, the same day as this accident there were more than 30 military eric that entered taiwan s air defense identification zone and more than 50 military eric and a new high just a couple of days later that led to harsh rhetoric twin the two countries. there was jake sullivan meeting the high ranking chinese official to bridge a gap between the leaders of the two countries to ensure stability but that no way alleviates the friction over taiwan and over the south china sea between these two super pourers. thank you so much.
shipping container. for the end it is an unknown object and they will try to figure out what the submarine could possibly have hit. it did sustain some damage but not through the core, the nuclear power plant and it was able to make its way under the own power to guam to figure out what happened will begin and the course to figure out what happened, what went wrong and could this have been avoided. so all of that is part of the investigation. crucially the navy did not say it happened in the south china sea. that is from defense officials the navy said it happened in the international waters of indo pave region. it doesn t like to acknowledge where the subs are operating but that location is crucial with these rising tensions with china right now. oren, this happened in a very tension part of the world as i don t need to remind you, near china and taiwan when the chinese are directing threats at taiwan. absolutely, the south china sea the u.s. considers that international waters un