As soon as the Fujian ship left, the US and British warships immediately passed by the Taiwan Strait. What signal does this send? Taiwan experts warned: If you want to unify, you can only fight.

On September 12, 2025, the third aircraft carrier of the Chinese Navy, the Fujian ship, traveled through the Taiwan Strait to relevant waters in the South China Sea to carry out scientific research and testing tasks.

This marks the first time that the Fujian ship crosses the Taiwan Strait and is also an important node in its sea trial process.

The Fujian ship is China's first catapult aircraft carrier designed and built independently, with a displacement of about 80,000 tons and equipped with an electromagnetic catapult system, representing the technological leap of the Chinese naval aircraft carrier formation from sliding leap to catapult.

A Chinese Navy spokesman said that this operation is a normal arrangement for the aircraft carrier construction process and does not target any specific targets, but through the location of the Taiwan Strait, it has attracted high attention from the West.

At the same day, the USS Higgins missile destroyer and the British USS Richmond frigate passed through the Taiwan Strait.

Col. Shi Yi, spokesperson of the Eastern Theater Command, responded that the theater organized naval and air forces to follow the supervision throughout the process and dealt with it effectively in accordance with the law.

This is not the first time that a US and British warship has passed through the Taiwan Strait, but its coincidence with the operation of the Fujian ship shows a high degree of timeliness. The United States and Britain called this a "routine passage" and aimed at maintaining "freedom of navigation."

What is the purpose of the United States' move? There are nothing more than the following points.

First: Promoting the fallacy of the so-called international waters of the Taiwan Strait

The adoption of US and British warships is part of the "Free and Open Indo-Pacific" strategy. The U.S. Navy regularly sends ships through the Taiwan Strait, aiming to challenge China's "sovereignty claims" over the strait and provide "security guarantees" to Taiwan.

The participation of the British Navy reflects the expansion of US-UK cooperation under the framework of the "Five Eyes Alliance", showing the "joint containment" of Western countries over China.

This operation follows the Fujian ship, and may be intended to "peer-to-peer response" to prevent China from establishing "factual control" in the strait.

Second: Send a military signal to mainland China

In the context of Sino-US trade frictions and intensified geopolitical tensions, US military warships trespassed the Taiwan Strait, sending China the warning of "do not act rashly".

The United States is the main arms selling country in Taiwan. The United States regards the Fujian ship as a "potential threat" and reiterates its support for Taiwan through warship operations.

The British Ministry of Defense said this was a "routine", but the choice of timing was undoubtedly a political statement aimed at maintaining the so-called "international waterway order".

Taiwanese well-known strategic scholar Lei Qian also recently said that a cross-strait war may be inevitable. She believes that there is no time for the eight unifications in Chinese history that does not fight wars. So if conflict is inevitable, then the two sides of the Taiwan Strait should now seek to make the shorter the conflict, the better, and the smaller the casualties, the better.

In fact, the mainland's Jiusan military parade was not aimed at the Taiwan army, and such advanced weapons were not used to fight the Taiwan army.

The Taiwanese scholar also suggested that the mainland could take the lead in proclaiming that the war of reunification was not signed with the Kuomintang during the War of Liberation, declaring that the future war of unification would be a continuation of the civil war.

Although the views of this Taiwanese expert are quite straightforward, they also have many advantages.

For the situation in the Taiwan Strait, it can be said that it has reached the eve of a complete showdown between China and the United States. The upcoming entry of the Chinese Fujian ship marks that the United States is completely ineligible to be near the first island chain and hinder the Chinese Navy from leaving the Western Pacific. It is necessary for us to prepare public opinion and psychologically for various future situations.