@loweel

So the flurry of your comments calling this story BS made me of course more curious. Here you have a Dutch news piece about the decision the NLD Navy and thus the government made: https://marineschepen.nl/nieuws/China-waarschuwt-Britten-en-dus-ook-Nederland-voor-reis-door-Zuid-Chinese-Zee-020121.html

Translations mine:

> This spring, in April of May, HMS Queen Elizabeth shall leave to the East for a journey through South China Sea to Japan. That's the plan.
> Besides British ships, also an American destroyer and the Dutch frigate Zr. Ms. Evertsen shall take part.

At least we know what are facts now.

@mathias