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Beijing lengthens invasion drills on Taiwan with anti-submarine and sea assault exercises


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China announces on the Weibo social network that it continues “conducting joint practical exercises in the air and sea space around the island of Taiwan”

Taiwanese fighter planes in Taiwan.
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In the new normal in the Taiwan Strait, Chinese warplanes and ships regularly simulate an invasion with live ammunition on an island that Beijing considers a breakaway province. The prudence of past times in respecting Taiwan’s air space and waters is over. In the Asian giant they have announced that, from now on, military maneuvers in the southern seas will be carried out regularlybreaking the unofficial median line dividing Chinese and Taiwanese territorial waters.

The war games of the People’s Liberation Army (EPL) continue for the fifth consecutive day. The official script announced by Beijing was for the exercises to end on Sunday. But it seems that an unprecedented 72 hours of military blockade on Taiwan is not enough as an answer to the last week’s visit by the Speaker of the House of Representatives from the United States, Nancy Pelosito the island.

The second week of August has started with more movements around Taiwan: anti-submarine operations and sea assault simulations. “This Monday we will continue to carry out joint practical exercises in air and sea space,” the PLA announced on its Weibo account, the Chinese Twitter. This notice, unlike previous days, did not specify the location of the exercises or when they would end.

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The latest official announcement from the PLA Eastern Theater Command, the section of the Chinese army that supervises the Taiwan Strait, which was the one that demarcated six zones around the island to carry out military maneuvers, indicated that this Monday more maneuvers would be carried out in the southern part of the Yellow Sea, near South Korea. These will last until August 15. More prolonged, until September 8, will be other announced battle drills in the Bohai Sea, at the northern end of the East China Sea.

Since taiwan have also communicated that their navy will carry out two large-scale live-fire artillery exercises – 78 locally developed light mortars and six US-made howitzers will be used to fire projectiles into the air and sea – next Tuesday and Thursday in the south of the autonomous island.

On Thursday, the first day of invasion drills by Peking after Pelosi’s passage through Taipei, the most outstanding movement in the military field was to launch 11 ballistic missiles. At least four came to fly over the sky of Taiwan. On Friday, 68 fighter planes and 13 navy ships surrounded the island. Although the most prominent news was in the eight countermeasures that China imposed on the United States, such as suspend the high-level security dialogue with Washingtona key communication channel to avoid accidents and other miscalculations that could lead to further conflict.

This Monday, Wu Qian, spokesman for the Chinese Defense Ministry, defended the decision to close the channels with Washington. “The current tense situation in the Taiwan Strait is entirely provoked and created by the US side on its own initiative, and the US side must bear full responsibility and serious consequences for it. The bottom line cannot be broken, and communication requires sincerity.” Wu said.

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On Saturday, the exercises focused on a full simulation of a future invasion from the six demarcated areas around Taiwan that have blocked some air traffic and trade with the island. Beijing has tried to besiege the island under a trade lock on the island, managing to divert sea and air routes. The Chinese government has also rolled out various sanction packages, such as restrictions on Taiwanese agricultural products and imports of natural sand. China is Taiwan’s largest trading partner.with a bilateral trade of $328.3 billion last year

On the last official day of the maneuvers, which was to be Sunday, the fighter planes and frigates crossed the middle line of the strait again and the Chinese fighters flew over the archipelago of Kinmen, controlled by Taiwan, but less than 10 kilometers from the Chinese province of Fujian. China’s live-fire drills around Taiwan have offered an unprecedented glimpse of how Beijing can execute its long-awaited “reunification” by force.

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