China's navy begins to erase imaginary Taiwan Strait median line

Taiwan is bracing for warships from China's much larger navy routinely pushing over the line as part of a protest against the visit by US Speaker Nancy Pelosi. - Reuters

TAIPEI (Reuters): For nearly 70 years an imagined line running down the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and China has helped keep the peace but the so-called median line is looking increasingly meaningless as China's modernised navy asserts its strength.

China has never officially recognised the line that a US general devised in 1954 at the height of Cold War hostility between Communist China and US-backed Taiwan although the People's Liberation Army largely respected it.