The Chinese military will expand military maneuvers conducted during this day around Taiwan between last Thursday and this Sunday Legislation reacts to President’s visit to the island De Eee UU, Nancy Pelosi.
The People’s Liberation Army (EPL) announced on the Weibo social network – the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, censored in the Asian country – that it is continuing “conducting joint practical exercises in the airspace and marine around the island of Taiwan”.
The maneuvers that Beijing has carried out in recent days are with live fire and launch of long-range missiles, Described as “irresponsible” by the Taiwanese government, In addition to raising several signs of concern within the international community.
The focus will be on this Monday’s exercise Anti-submarine operations and air strikes With ships as targets, the statement added.
However, officials did not specify the location of these additional maneuvers or whether they retain the six areas in which they were conducted in recent times. One of them is located just 20 kilometers from the main city Kaohsiung from the south of the island.
On Sunday, which should have been the last day of the exercise, although Beijing never officially confirmed its end, the focus was on the exercise. “Test combined fire capabilities for ground attack and long-range air strikes”Actions that Taiwan condemned and followed “closely” with its armed forces.
The first four days of the maneuvers were extended to the six aforesaid areas around the island, in which air and sea spaces were closedAnd it included live fire and the launch of long-range missiles, some of which landed in Japanese waters, leading to official opposition from the Japanese government.
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense in those days condemned that many Chinese military ships and aircraft had crossed the midline of the Strait of Formosa, It is an informal limit in practice but is still respected by Taipei and Beijing.
In response to China’s moves and in the course of its testing “Combat Preparation”, According to the official Taiwanese agency CNA, the self-ruled island has announced that it will conduct military exercises tomorrow Tuesday and next Thursday in Pingtung County and will include live artillery fire.
China, called Pelosi’s Journey Claims sovereignty over Taiwan is “spectacle” and “reprehensible betrayal”,An island that has been considered a rebel province since Kuomintang nationalists withdrew in 1949 after losing a civil war against the Communists.
