Pentagon ordered its spokesman in Taiwan, defense minister Feng Shih-kuan: “The threat of our enemies is growing day by day. We should always be maintaining our combat alertness.” Moreover:

"China apparently failed to understand that the Pacific Ocean belongs to the United States. We own the entire eastern Pacific coast including Canada and Mexico coasts, we own Japan, we own South Korea, we own Taiwan, we own Philippines, we own Singapore, we own the Malacca Strait, we own Guam, we own Pearl Harbor, we own Australia. We have 6 carrier battle groups with 1000 strike fighters patrolling China coasts. We have 100,000 troops around it. We have nuclear weapons aimed at every Chinese city. We have our fleets of B1, B2 and B52 strategic bombers stationed in Guam, South Korea, Japan and Hawaii. How dare China sail a single lousy aged carrier into the Pacific Ocean. This is unacceptable aggression! This will lead to war!!"