- Congestion pricing board to hold meeting as mass transit workers on brink of strike PIX11 New York News
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- Congestion pricing: What New York can learn from London, Stockholm and Singapore Gothamist
- Congestion pricing NYC: Hearings, demonstrations take place over controversial plan WABC-TV
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New Jersey Transit Northeast Corridor service suspended due to Amtrak overhead wire issues – WPVI-TV
- New Jersey Transit Northeast Corridor service suspended due to Amtrak overhead wire issues WPVI-TV
- Overhead wire issues in NJ slowing Amtrak trains, stopping NJ Transit trains NBC 10 Philadelphia
- NJ Transit suspends Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast Line service due to overhead wire issues CBS News
- Amtrak power issue halts service from Philly, disrupts NJ Transit travelers Crain’s New York Business
- Amtrak service from Philadelphia to New York resumes after being suspended due to overhead power issues; NJ Transit returns too WPVI-TV
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Metro Transit will extend light rail service after the Taylor Swift concerts in Minneapolis – Star Tribune
- Metro Transit will extend light rail service after the Taylor Swift concerts in Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Taylor Swift in Minneapolis: Metro Transit extends bus, train service FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
- Metro Transit to extend service in downtown Minneapolis after Taylor Swift shows CBS Minnesota
- Heading to see Taylor Swift? Metro Transit can get you home safe and sound after all MPR News
- Metro Transit: Free Rice Street ride, no late-night trains (yet) for Taylor Swift, MVTA ‘Swiftie Bus,’ upcoming I-94 closures St. Paul Pioneer Press
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NJ TRANSIT Service Impacts due to Portal Bridge Signal Repairs – Thursday, May 11, and Friday, May 12, 2023 | NJ TRANSIT | New Jersey Transit Corporation | New Jersey – NJ Transit
- NJ TRANSIT Service Impacts due to Portal Bridge Signal Repairs – Thursday, May 11, and Friday, May 12, 2023 | NJ TRANSIT | New Jersey Transit Corporation | New Jersey NJ Transit
- Portal Bridge issue causing NJ Transit delays CBS New York
- Portal bridge problems, PATH issues send evening rail rush hour into a frenzy NJ.com
- Partial NJ Transit rail service restored in and out of NY Penn Station in New York City due to Amtrak portal bridge issue WABC-TV
- ‘Limited’ NJ Transit Train Service To, From NY Penn Due to Portal Bridge Issue NBC New York
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Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $700 Million in Grants to Replace Aging Passenger Railcars in Six Transit Systems | US Department of Transportation – Department of Transportation
- Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $700 Million in Grants to Replace Aging Passenger Railcars in Six Transit Systems | US Department of Transportation Department of Transportation
- UTA ‘delighted’ to receive $60M from feds to replace light rail vehicles KSL.com
- CTA is getting millions in federal cash for new trains Crain’s Chicago Business
- RTA wins $130 million federal grant to replace railcar fleet, starting with Red Line cleveland.com
- New MetroLink train cars coming to St. Louis region KTVI Fox 2 St. Louis
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China imposes transit curbs for S.Korea, Japan in growing COVID spat
BEIJING, Jan 11 (Reuters) – China introduced transit curbs for South Korean and Japanese nationals on Wednesday, in an escalating diplomatic spat over COVID-19 curbs that is marring the grand re-opening of the world’s second-largest economy after three years of isolation.
China removed quarantine mandates for inbound travellers on Sunday, one of the last vestiges of the world’s strictest regime of COVID restrictions, which Beijing abruptly began dismantling in early December after historic protests.
But worries over the scale and impact of the outbreak in China, where the virus is spreading unchecked, have prompted more than a dozen countries to demand negative COVID test results from people arriving from China.
Among them, South Korea and Japan have also limited flights and require tests on arrival, with passengers showing up as positive being sent to quarantine. In South Korea, quarantine is at the traveller’s own cost.
In response, the Chinese embassies in Seoul and Tokyo said on Tuesday they had suspended issuing short-term visas for travellers to China, with the foreign ministry slamming the testing requirements as “discriminatory.”
That prompted an official protest from Japan to China, while South Korean foreign minister Park Jin said that Seoul’s decision was based on scientific evidence, not discriminatory and that China’s countermeasures were “deeply regrettable.”
In a sign of escalating tensions on Wednesday, China’s immigration authority suspended its transit visa exemptions for South Koreans and Japanese.
The spat may affect economic relations between the three neighbours as well.
Japanese department store operator Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd (3099.T) and supermarket operator Aeon Co (8267.T) said they may have to rethink personnel transfers to China depending on how long the suspension lasts.
“We won’t be able to make short-term business trips, but such trips had dwindled during COVID anyway, so we don’t expect an immediate impact. But if the situation lasts long, there will be an effect,” said a South Korean chip industry source who declined to be identified, as the person was not authorised to speak to media.
China requires negative test results from visitors from all countries.
COUNTING DEATHS
Some of the governments that announced curbs on travellers from China cited concerns over Beijing’s data transparency.
The World Health Organization has said China was underreporting deaths.
China’s health authorities have been reporting five or fewer deaths a day over the past month, numbers that are inconsistent with the long queues seen at funeral homes. In a first, they did not report COVID fatalities data on Tuesday.
China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Health Commission did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Without mentioning whether daily reporting had been discontinued, Liang Wannian, head of a COVID expert panel under the national health authority, told reporters deaths can only be accurately counted after the pandemic is over.
China should ultimately determine death figures by looking at excess mortality, Wang Guiqiang, the head of the infectious diseases department at Peking University First Hospital said at the same news conference.
Although international health experts have predicted at least one million COVID-related deaths this year, China has reported just over 5,000 since the pandemic began, a fraction of what other countries have reported as they reopened.
China says it has been transparent with its data.
State media said the COVID wave was already past its peak in the provinces of Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Sichuan and Hainan, as well as in the large cities of Beijing and Chongqing – home to more than 500 million people combined.
‘INSULTING’
On Wednesday, Chinese state media devoted extensive coverage of what they called as “discriminatory” border rules in South Korea and Japan.
Nationalist tabloid Global Times defended Beijing’s retaliation as a “direct and reasonable response to protect its own legitimate interests, particularly after some countries are continuing hyping up China’s epidemic situation by putting travel restrictions for political manipulation.”
Chinese social media anger mainly targeted South Korea, whose border measures are the strictest among the countries that announced new rules.
Videos circulating online showed special lanes coordinated by soldiers in uniform for arrivals from China at the airport, with travellers given yellow lanyards with QR codes for processing test results.
One user of China’s Twitter-like Weibo said singling out Chinese travellers was “insulting” and akin to “people treated as criminals and paraded on the streets.”
Annual spending by Chinese tourists abroad reached $250 billion before the pandemic, with South Korea and Japan among the top shopping destinations.
Repeated lockdowns have hammered China’s $17 trillion economy. The World Bank estimated its 2022 growth slumped to 2.7%, its second-slowest pace since the mid-1970s after 2020.
It predicted a rebound to 4.3% for 2023, but that is 0.9 percentage points below its June forecast because of the severity of COVID disruptions and weakening external demand.
($1 = 6.7666 Chinese yuan renminbi)
Additional reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Kaori Kaneko, Mari Shiraki and Elaine Lies in Tokyo; Joyce Lee, Hyunsu Yim and Heekyong Yang in Seoul
Writing by Marius Zaharia; Editing by Gerry Doyle and Kim Coghill
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Ice storm shuts down Sea-Tac runways, closes roads, halts transit, cuts power – KIRO 7 News Seattle
WESTERN WASHINGTON — Freezing rain in areas of Western Washington has shut down all but one runway at Sea-Tac Airport, suspended public transportation, caused road closures and cut power to thousands amid icy conditions.
The Washington State Department of Transportation said all drivers should delay non-essential travel because of icy conditions across the area. Officials said there were too many collisions and spinouts to report.
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“Our crews are still working the roads but we suggest holding off until weather conditions improve,” WSDOT said.
“The heaviest freezing rain has moved on, but light freezing rain/wintry mix will continue through the morning. Temps at the surface should be above freezing around lunch or into the early afternoon. Even light freezing rain means ice,” KIRO 7 Meteorologist Nick Allard said at 7:20 a.m.
LIVE UPDATES:
10:40 a.m. Snohomish PUD said crews are encountering multiple power poles and trees on the ground in Gold Bar.
10:38 a.m. Due to the ongoing icy conditions, the I-5 Express Lanes in Seattle will be kept in the southbound direction through Saturday afternoon.
10:20 a.m. Puget Sound Energy is reporting 13,562 customers are without power. Snohomish PUD has 5,554 and Seattle City Light has 353. There are also outages in the San Juan Islands, and Grays Harbor and Clallam counties.
10:07 a.m. The Seattle Fire Department said crews are responding to a large number of calls across the city for slips and falls on ice on sidewalks, roadways and parking lots and advised people to stay inside if possible.
10 a.m. All Metro Transit service remains suspended due to icy conditions, including buses, water taxis, on-demand and the Seattle Streetcar. The next update will be at 2 p.m.
9:52 a.m. Eastbound SR 18 is closed at Issaquah-Hobart Road Southeast due to multiple collisions, spinouts and a jackknifed semi. WSDOT said the closure is expected to take multiple hours.
9:40 a.m. Sound Transit Link trains are now running every ten minutes.
9:15 a.m. Seattle Public Utilities has canceled residential garbage, recycling, and food waste collection. Tues, Wed, Thursday and Friday customers can set out double next week at no extra charge.
9:07 a.m. Seattle Center Monorail service remains suspended.
8:58 a.m. The Washington State Department of Transportation said drivers should continue to delay all non-essential travel due to freezing rain still falling and icy conditions on roadways area wide.
8:29 a.m. The Lower Spokane Street Bridge in Seattle has reopened.
8:28 a.m. “Sound Transit’s 1 Line is running with minor delays but it’s a skating rink to get to/from the stations! Stay put unless absolutely necessary until things start to thaw out.”
8:08 a.m. All Kitsap Transit service remains canceled.
7:58 a.m. WSDOT’s Snoqualmie Pass Twitter account said drivers planning to cross I-90 should delay their trips, if possible. East of the summit there is drifting snow and poor visibility. West of the summit has freezing rain. There is heavy snow at the summit.
7:47 a.m. U.S. 2 is closed between Gold Bar and Index due to downed trees, freezing rain and icy conditions.
7:30 a.m. Most King County facilities will be closed Friday due to weather conditions. They will reopen on Tuesday, Dec. 27.
7 a.m. All Metro Transit service remains suspended due to icy conditions, including buses, water taxis, on-demand and the Seattle Streetcar. Next update at 10 a.m.
6:57 a.m. One runway at Sea-Tac Airport has reopened after being deiced. Operations will continue to be limited depending on weather conditions.
6:52 a.m. Freezing rain and high winds has caused power outages in the eastern areas of Snohomish County. Outage map: OutageMap.SnoPUD.com. About 5,400 customers are without power.
6:41 a.m. I-90 between I-405 and and SR 18 reopened.
6:40 a.m. Pierce Transit service is delayed until 10 a.m.
6:24 a.m. All Community Transit service to Seattle and local service within Snohomish County is suspended due to hazardous roads.
6:23 a.m. The Washington State Department of Transportation said all drivers should delay non-essential travel because of icy conditions across the area.
6 a.m. The Lower Spokane Street Bridge is closed due to a crash and icy conditions.
5:56 a.m. All Alaska and Horizon departures out of Seattle and Portland are canceled until noon due to icy runway conditions.
5:35 a.m. All Community Transit service into Seattle is suspended due to hazardous roads. Local service in Snohomish County will continue. The Zip Shuttle suspended until noon. Find details at this link.
5:30 a.m. Washington State Ferries said service has been suspended on the Seattle-Bremerton route and the Port Townsend-Coupeville route. There is one-boat service on the Fauntleroy-Vashon-Southworth, Seattle-Bainbridge, Edmonds-Kingston and Mukilteo-Clinton routes.
5:30 a.m. Start of Pierce Transit service now delayed until 7 a.m. When routes begin, they’ll be on snow routes.
5:21 a.m. All Pierce Transit routes are on a 2-hour delay. Once service starts, they will be on a snow detour.
5:10 a.m. Sea-Tac Airport said all runways are closed indefinitely as crews continue to deice surfaces.
4:20 a.m. King County Metro canceled all bus service suspended due to ice. Metro said its next update would be at 7 a.m.
“Metro buses are unable to leave bus bases due to deteriorating and unsafe road conditions. We regret the impact on our riders. We will add service as soon as it is safe for customers and employees,” Metro said.
3:35 a.m. All lanes of Interstate 90 closed between I-405 and SR 18 from icy road conditions that caused multiple collisions and spin outs. Troopers advise people to stay home if possible.
2 a.m. Runways at Sea-Tac Airport closed after the airfield received a dump of freezing rain that quickly solidified into ice. Hundreds of flights are canceled.
The heaviest freezing rain has moved on, but light freezing rain/wintry mix will continue through the morning. Temps at the surface should be above freezing around lunch or into the early afternoon. Even light freezing rain means ice. #NickKnows #wawx pic.twitter.com/uHGXiUkgyl
— Nick Allard (@NickAllardKIRO7) December 23, 2022
FORECAST
The storm is right on track with the forecast and a lot of western Washington is seeing freezing rain. Almost every temperatures sensor is below freezing, which means if you see rain, assume ice. It’s liquid precipitation falling on something at or below freezing and instantly turning to ice or freezing rain.
The rain will taper a bit over the next couple of hours, but until late-morning to about mid-day, temperatures will be below freezing. Even as we warm up around midday, with spotty rainfall there could still be some pockets that are below freezing.
Road conditions are a mess across Puget Sound right now. E Fairbanks St (Tacoma’s steepest hill per @GrahamKIRO7) is closed, but this is how it looks near the corner of Portland Ave. White car slid & crashed, black car hit it, per witness. Streets are ICY. @KIRO7Seattle pic.twitter.com/dwyNsou2yw
— Kevin Ko (@NewsWithKevin) December 23, 2022
We have pockets of snow in and around the Hood Canal area and north of Everett, but also some pockets of freezing rain mixed in.
“The slight lull in precipitation will help this morning, but please remember that if you see rain assume ice!” KIRO 7 Meteorologist Nick Allard said.
This afternoon temperatures will warm into the upper-30s with spotty areas of just rain showers; however, there could still be some pockets of light freezing rain mixed in. The Cascades will be a mess with freezing rain possible all day and possibly early Saturday.
Bottom line, from now through about midday, any rain could fall as freezing rain.
(Forecast continues after video)
Snow and freezing rain will increase through the passes Friday afternoon and last into Friday night with the potential for significant impact there. More than a half-inch of ice is possible at Snoqualmie Pass by Saturday morning, causing major travel disruption.
East of the Cascades, some light icing is likely late Friday and Friday night, but then increasing snow and freezing rain Saturday into Christmas Day.
Over the weekend, while some freezing rain and snow are likely from the passes east Saturday and into Christmas Day, west of the Cascades, we’ll have heavy rain at times. This rain could cause urban flooding from blocked storm drains and, eventually, river flooding. This threat of flooding from a suddenly warmer and very wet weather pattern (with several atmospheric rivers possible) will continue through next week.
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Belarus offers Ukraine grain transit without conditions: UN | Russia-Ukraine war News
Belarus also asked to be allowed to export its own fertiliser products, which are currently subject to Western sanctions.
Belarus told the United Nations that it would allow, without conditions, the transit of grain from Ukraine through its territory, for export from Lithuanian ports, a UN spokesman said.
Belarusian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Yury Ambrazevich met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York on Friday to tell him there are no preconditions to the transit of Ukraine grain, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
Ambrazevich also “reiterated the requests from his government to be able to export its own fertiliser products, which are currently subject to sanctions”, Dujarric said in a statement after the meeting.
Belarus, a big global potash producer, has been hit by harsh European Union sanctions since 2020 – which disrupted its exports of the fertiliser via the Baltic Sea ports – in response to the violence inflicted by authorities on peaceful protesters following disputed elections. At that time, Minsk required Russian help in quashing the wave of pro-democracy protests.
A Russian ally and part of the staging ground for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Belarus said in June that it would let Ukrainian grain shipments to transit to Baltic Sea ports if Belarus was allowed to ship its goods from those ports as well.
Ukraine did not agree to the proposal.
Since the start of the Russian invasion, Belarus has largely stayed away from direct involvement in the war in Ukraine. However, President Alexander Lukashenko has in the past ordered troops to deploy with Russian forces near the Ukrainian border, citing threats to Belarus from Kyiv and the West.
Kyiv has expressed fears that Belarus could collude with Russia and attack Ukraine from its northern border.
In July, the UN and Turkey brokered a deal with Russia and Ukraine to resume Ukraine’s Black Sea shipments of grain – stalled since the start of the war when Russia imposed a naval blockade of Ukraine’s ports.
The United Nations has said Russia’s war in Ukraine has worsened a global food crisis, pushing some 47 million people into “acute hunger”.
Someone Dropped a Ford Focus ST Drivetrain into Ford Transit
At Jalopnik, we love when people come up with crazy combinations to make unexpected vehicles, suddenly become performance gods (or wannabe gods). Take this 2014 Ford Transit Connect listed on Cars & Bids. At first glance, sure, it’s just a Ford Transit van. But underneath the sheet metals beats an unexpected heart: the turbocharged I4 from a 2014 Focus ST.
Together, we have what Ford would likely have never given us, a Ford Transit Connect ST. From the outside, everything appears stock, aside from the ST badging. It’s a subtle hint letting you know that this Transit truly is something special, and different.
Sure, keen-eyed observers might recognize a few ST details like the 18-inch Focus ST wheels, the rally car-like mud flaps and the center exit exhaust. But there’s more where that came from.
Now to be clear, this van isn’t just a Focus ST engine thrown into a Transit Connect. This vehicle has been given all the mods to ensure that it drives well, like a Focus ST, too.
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Starting with the ST’s 2.5-liter turbocharged I4, which in its stock form makes 252 horsepower and 270 lb-ft of torque, and is paired to a six-speed manual. That part of the drivetrain has been modified with a stage 2 tune from Cobb, a stage 3 clutch kit from SPEC Clutch, a Mishimoto radiator, and a limited-slip differential from MFactory. The owner also threw on an Eibach lowering spring kit. Unfortunately, a dyno sheet wasn’t provided for the Transit’s mods, so it’s not known just how much of the work may have increased power output.
Inside there’s what looks to be the ST’s Recaro seats and its whole instrument cluster, auxiliary gauges on the center stack for things like oil pressure and temp, and a nice sound system setup including a Kenwood head unit and an Alpine amp.
There’s a rather glaring problem with the instrument cluster. The seller says that when the factory cluster was swapped for the ST cluster “the instrument cluster was programmed to display the chassis mileage.” That means that the exact total mileage of this thing isn’t known, though the seller notes he’s put 7,000 miles on it since the swap was done in May of 2021.
Other problems appear to be a list of weird electrical gremlins like the radiator fan remaining on, or the a/c turning on after the car has run for a bit. Power steering also just kicks in after “the first five or 10 feet of driving,” and the traction control, ABS and rearview camera all do not work. Maybe that comes down to some programming things. But regardless, all things to keep in mind.
If you can see the potential in the list of electrical maladies, the little scratches here and there on the outside, and the wear on the seat bolsters, there’s still time to nab this creation for your garage. At the time of writing, there’s still six days left, and the bid is at $12,500.
US sends two warships through Taiwan Strait, first transit since Pelosi trip
The guided-missile cruisers USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville were on Sunday making the voyage “through waters where high seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law,” the US 7th Fleet in Japan said in a statement.
It said the transit was “ongoing” and that there had been “no interference from foreign military forces so far.”
“These ships (are transiting) through a corridor in the strait that is beyond the territorial sea of any coastal state. The ships’ transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the United States’ commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific. The United States military flies, sails, and operates anywhere international law allows,” it said.
The strait is a 110-mile (180-kilometer) stretch of water that separates the democratic self-ruled island of Taiwan from mainland China.
Beijing claims sovereignty over Taiwan despite China’s ruling Communist Party never having controlled the island — and considers the strait part of its “internal waters.”
The US Navy, however, says most of the strait is in international waters.
The Navy cites an international law that defines territorial waters as extending 12 nautical miles (22.2 kilometers) from a country’s coastline and regularly sends its warships through the strait in what it calls freedom of navigation operations, including recent voyages by the guided missile destroyers USS Benfold and USS Port Royal.
Those transits drew angry responses from Beijing.
“The frequent provocations and showing-off by the US fully demonstrate that the US is the destroyer of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and the creator of security risks in the Taiwan Strait,” Col. Shi Yi, spokesman for the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command, said after the Benfold’s transit on July 19.
Beijing has ramped up military maneuvers in the strait — and the skies above it — following the visit by Pelosi to the island earlier this month.
Within minutes of Pelosi landing in Taiwan on August 2, the PLA announced four days of military exercises in six zones encircling the island.
The maneuvers included launching ballistic missiles into waters around Taiwan, numerous Chinese warships steaming in the Taiwan Strait and dozens of PLA warplanes breaching the median line — the midway point between mainland China and Taiwan that Beijing says it does not recognize but had largely respected.
Since those exercises officially ended, PLA warplanes have continued to cross the median line daily, usually in double-digit numbers, according to statistics from Taiwan’s Defense Ministry. From August 8, the last of the four days of drills announced the night Pelosi landed in Taiwan, through August 22, between five and 21 PLA aircraft crossed the median line each day.
In July, the month before Pelosi’s trip, Chinese warplanes crossed the median line just once, with an unspecified number of jets, according to Taiwan’s Defense Ministry.
In addition, Taiwan reports between five and 14 PLA warships have been seen in the waters surrounding Taiwan.
The PLA’s exercises have been continuing this week, part of what is normally a busy season for Chinese drills.
China’s Eastern Theater Command said on Friday it had conducted “joint combat-readiness security patrols and combat training exercises involving troops of multiple services and arms in the waters and airspace” around Taiwan.
That announcement came after US Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, became the latest member of Congress to visit Taiwan defying pressure from Beijing, saying, “I will not be bullied by Communist China into turning my back on the island.”
In tweets Friday morning, the US senator, who does not represent the Biden administration, reiterated her support for Taiwan.
“I will never kowtow to the Chinese Communist Party,” she said in one. “I will continue to stand with the (Taiwanese) and their right to freedom and democracy. Xi Jinping doesn’t scare me,” she added later, referring to China’s leader.
Nicholas Burns, the US ambassador to China, told CNN last week that Beijing’s response to the Pelosi visit to Taiwan has been “an overreaction.”
“We do not believe there should be a crisis in US-China relations over the visit — the peaceful visit — of the speaker of the House of Representatives to Taiwan … it was a manufactured crisis by the government in Beijing,” Burns said in an interview from the US Embassy.
It is now “incumbent upon the government here in Beijing to convince the rest of the world that it will act peacefully in the future,” the ambassador said.
“I think there’s a lot of concern around the world that China has now become an agent of instability in the Taiwan Strait and that’s not in anyone’s interest,” he said.
Other US officials had said Washington would not be changing the way the US military operates in the region.
“We’ll continue to fly, sail, and operate where international law allows, consistent with our longstanding commitment to freedom of navigation, and that includes conducting standard air and maritime transits through the Taiwan Strait in the next few weeks,” Kurt Campbell, US President Joe Biden’s coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, told reporters at the White House on August 12.
Chinese Ambassador to Washington Qin Gang said last week that the US transits only intensify tensions.
“I do call on American colleagues to exercise restraint, not to do anything to escalate the tension,” Qin told reporters in Washington. “If there’s any move damaging China’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, China will respond.”