Thursday, March 28

Taiwan accuses China of simulating an invasion of the island


  • Taipei mobilizes its forces in response to China’s military maneuvers

Taiwan denounced this Saturday that Chinese military ships and planes once again crossed the middle line of the Strait of Formosa in a “possible simulated attack“As part of the military maneuvers announced after the visit to the island by the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi. In a message published on its official Twitter account, the island’s Ministry of National Defense assures that the objective of this attack simulation would be a “high value asset”, without specifying more details in this regard.

In response, Taipei issued alerts and deployed air and naval patrols, also activating its land-based missile systems, as it did during the day on Friday in the face of the “strong provocation” of the crossing of the middle line of the Strait by “several” Chinese ships and planes. This imaginary line in the strait works as a unofficial border but tacitly respected by China and Taiwan during the last decades.

The movements of the People’s Liberation Army (EPL, the Chinese Army) are part of the military maneuvers that it has been carrying out since Thursday and that will last until Sunday in retaliation for Pelosi’s visit, and that until now have included live fire and the launch of long-range missiles. These exercises take place in six zones around the island, one of them about 20 kilometers from the coast of Kaohsiung, the main city in southern Taiwan.

“Block” and “threat”

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Although China has conducted other drills in the Taiwan Strait in recent years, this week’s drills are different because “they cover a larger area, involve more military elements and are expected to be highly effective,” Chinese experts on the matter reported. of defense quoted by local media. Taiwan has described China’s military presence in those areas as a “blockade,” and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen called China’s “deliberately heightened military threat” “irresponsible.”

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China, which described Pelosi’s visit as a “farce” and “deplorable betrayal”, claims sovereignty over the island and considers Taiwan a rebellious province since the Kuomintang nationalists withdrew there in 1949, after losing the civil war against the communists


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