SHANGHAI/TAIPEI: China launched military drills around Taiwan on Saturday as a “serious warning” to separatist forces in an angry but widely expected ...
An Air Force aircraft takes part in military drills by the Eastern Theatre Command of China's People's Liberation Army around Taiwan, in this screengrab from a handout video released August 19, 2023. - REUTERSPIX: China launched military drills around Taiwan on Saturday as a “serious warning” to separatist forces in an angry but widely expected response to Vice President William Lai’s visit to the United States, drawing condemnation from Taipei.
Taiwan’s defence ministry said it had detected 42 Chinese aircraft and eight ships involved in drills around the island from Saturday morning and that it had deployed ships and aircraft in response. In text accompanying the footage, set to a thumping orchestral score, it said the drills were to “test the actual combat capabilities of joint operations of forces in the theatre”.
Taiwanese officials had said China was likely to conduct military exercises this week near the island, using Lai’s U.S. stopovers as a pretext to intimidate voters ahead of next year’s presidential election and make them “fear war”. After the then-speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, visited Taipei last year, China’s military fired missiles over Taiwan, some landing in Japan’s exclusive economic zone, and staged naval drills around the island in what Taiwanese officials described as preparations for a full invasion.
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