Taiwan and Japan Track China Warship Together in Apparent Team-up at Sea

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This looks like a bargain basement operation for Taiwan.

Sure they and some in Japan would like to convince people they can run with the Chinese PLAN, but the truth is, the increasing deployments of Chinese warships and aircraft around Taiwan and the western Pacific is exhausting for the military resources of the two smaller defense establishments. Taiwan would like to get anyone else on board. There are reasons why the Japanese don't want to commit openly anymore than they have to. There are potential commercial costs to them. As the former colonial occupier of Taiwan, the optics aren't too good either.

I noticed that aircraftspots on twitter hasn't posted much lately. I don't see anything there in more than a week.