‘Serious warning’: China shakes Taiwan Strait with military exercises [VIDEO]

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA, Chinese Army) began military exercises around Taiwan on Saturday in response to Wednesday’s meeting in California between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. .

PLA Eastern Theater spokesman Shi Yi called the maneuvers a “serious warning” against “provocations by separatist forces” and “a necessary action to protect national sovereignty and territorial integrity.” China.

Exercises announced by the Army China On the same Saturday, they included the deployment of “missiles, conventional missiles, ships and aircraft,” the state-run CCTV network reported.

“Repressive Situation”

The maneuvers focused on “testing the ability of the forces to establish control over sea, air and information” while “supporting a unified system of command” to “create a repressive situation in which the island would be surrounded from all four directions”.

Weapons mobilized today include PHL-191 missile launchers, the 052C destroyer, Type 22 ships equipped with J-10C missiles and fighter jets, as well as DF-11 conventional ballistic missiles, local newspaper Global Times reports.

In addition, maritime security authorities in the southeastern province of Fujian, located off the coast Taiwanwarned that live-fire exercises would take place in the waters off the coast of the said province on the 8th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 17th and 20th of this month, local newspaper Global Times reported.

Military expert Song Zhongping, quoted by the newspaper, assured that Shandong, the second aircraft carrier China – the first of domestic production – will take part in the maneuvers, which will last until Monday.

“irrational act”

The island’s defense ministry today condemned the Chinese military maneuvers, calling them “an irrational act that threatens regional security and stability.”

The island’s military portfolio said on its official Twitter account that it ordered its aircraft, ships and missile systems to “react to actions” and “monitor the situation.”

In addition, the ministry reported that 42 Chinese military aircraft had intruded into the Air Identification Zone. Taiwanof which 29 crossed the median line of the strait Taiwanwhich has functioned for decades as an unofficial but tacitly observed border for China And Taiwan.

Over the past two years, Chinese military aircraft have carried out numerous incursions into Taiwan’s air defenses, intensifying at a time when tensions between the two territories have escalated.

Tsai Ing-wen arrived this Friday at Taiwan after an official visit to Central America and a stop in California where he met with McCarthy.

Chinese sanctions

This Friday, China announced the imposition of sanctions against the representative Taiwan to the US, Xiao Bi-Khim, for what, according to Beijing, he asked the US to support the island’s independence program in order to provoke a confrontation in the Formosa Strait.

Also on Friday, the Asian giant sanctioned the Hudson Institute and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library for “providing a platform” to Tsai to “engage in separatist activities.”

The situation is reminiscent of what happened in August 2022, when a visit to Taiwan then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was angered by Beijing, which responded with military maneuvers around the island to the trip, which it called “a sham” and “an unfortunate treason.”

The Chinese maneuvers began hours after the departure of French President Emmanuel Macron. China after a three-day official visit, accompanied by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, during which the two discussed the war in Ukraine with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Beijing believes Taiwan a rebellious province since the Kuomintang nationalists withdrew in 1949 after losing the civil war to the communist army.

Tensions have flared up between Taipei and Beijing in recent weeks due to a breakdown in relations between Honduras and Taiwan establish them later with China, which reduced the number of the island’s diplomatic allies to 13.

Taiwan accused China implementation of “dollar diplomacy” and called Tegucigalpa’s decision “deplorable”.

The island is one of the biggest sources of conflict between China and the United States, largely due to the fact that Washington is the main supplier of weapons to Taiwan and would be his greatest military ally in the event of a war with China. (with EFE information)

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