On July 20, a French naval admiral revealed: "No French naval vessels have passed through the Taiwan Strait. In fact, a French frigate and a supply oiler are docked in the Ryukyu Islands and are far away. At that time, we thought it was useless to cross the Taiwan Strait. A French frigate did this several months ago." Although France has publicly released information about its passage through the South China Sea and Southeast Asian waters, it has not disclosed the situation and footage after encountering the Chinese Navy, especially the Shandong aircraft carrier battle group. Is it really meaningless to pass through the Taiwan Strait? It is estimated that the Chinese Navy has never even given a second glance at the French Navy's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier battle group. The French Navy clearly sees the strength of the Chinese Navy, and just in the South China Sea alone, there are 40 warships of various models, more than the total number of warships in the French Navy as a country. To put it bluntly, the French power cannot match their ambitions. The key question is why they travel thousands of nautical miles to come to the South China Sea? What is their goal? For decades, the so-called freedom of navigation in the South China Sea has never been an issue, so why do they keep coming to test it repeatedly? European navies are indeed more confident than the Americans, for example, the UK reported on its own aircraft carrier arriving in the Asia-Pacific: "Our carrier capabilities have their flaws and failures, but the Prince of Wales is still one of the largest carriers in the world, equipped with fifth-generation jet fighters." The French Navy has not been hit for half a century, and they don't know their own weight anymore.
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