Chinese forces conducted a joint combat exercise around Taiwan for the first since August 2022.
The latest exercise aimed to"resolutely counter the collusive and provocative acts of the external forces and the Taiwan independence separatist forces," Col. Shi Yi, a spokesperson for the PLA's Eastern Theater Command, was citted as saying.
A formation of Chinese military H-6K bombers overfly Beijing during a military parade at Tiananmen Square on October 1, 2019, to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Tensions are running high between Taiwan and China."We seek neither escalation nor conflict," Taiwan's military said in its own response on Monday.
Washington hasn't had official diplomatic relations with Taipei since switching formal recognition to Beijing in 1979, the same year its treaty obligation to defend Taiwan from a Chinese attack ended. However, the U.S. remains the island'sof arms, and Beijing likely expects American forces to intervene in the next Taiwan Strait crisis.
The U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon sails through the Taiwan Strait on January 5, 2022. Tensions remain high between Taiwan and China."In the future, in addition to the possible continuous increase in the number of PLA military aircraft, it is likely that they will get closer and closer to Taiwan's airspace and normalize it.
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