BERLIN, Germany – Germany will send two warships to the Indo-Pacific in 2024, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Sunday, June 4, amid rising tensions between China and Taiwan and over the disputed South China Sea.
“To this end, the German Federal Government sent a frigate to the Indo-Pacific in 2021, and will again, in 2024, deploy maritime assets – this time a frigate and a supply ship – to the region,” he said, according to a script of his speech distributed by the defence ministry in Berlin. “To the contrary: They are dedicated to the protection of the rules-based international order that we all signed up to and which we all should benefit from – be it in the Mediterranean, in the Bay of Bengal or in the South China Sea.”
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