US EditionChina launches military drills around Taiwan amid tensions with Japan
- On Dec 29, China's People's Liberation Army mobilised army, naval, air and rocket units around Taiwan in Just Mission 2025, testing combat readiness and issuing a `stern warning` against independence.
- The drills began 11 days after the U.S. announced a $11.1 billion arms sale to Taiwan, following Beijing's anger at Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks and post-2022 encirclement after then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taipei visit.
- The Eastern Theatre Command said the drills will dispatch air, naval, rocket and army units for integrated control, blockade, and sealing of key ports in five zones for 10 hours from 8:30 a.m. on Dec 30.
- Taiwan's military deployed appropriate forces, set up a response centre and carried out a rapid response exercise shortly after the drills, while spokesperson Karen Kuo condemned them as military intimidation.
- This marks the first time the PLA publicly framed drills as deterrence of outside intervention, including a `Shields of Justice` poster warning external interference threatens the Taiwan Strait during China's sixth major war games since 2022.
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The Chinese military has again launched a large-scale maneuver around Taiwan. The exercises should also include blockade scenarios - Taipei sharply criticizes the action.China has again begun a large-scale military exercise around Taiwan. As reported by the state news agency Xinhua on appeal to the Chinese military, the maneuver "Mission Justice 2025" has begun. Exercises are carried out in air and sea areas around Taiwan. The focus is on patrol…
The Chinese military has again launched a large-scale maneuver around Taiwan. The exercises should also include blockade scenarios - Taipei sharply criticizes the action.
China's military today announced the mobilization of land, naval, air and missile forces for "major military exercises" around Taiwan.
Beijing moves its military pawns to launch a "serious warning" , while Taiwan protests and announces in the morning the sighting of four Chinese coastguard ships near its territorial waters. China will conduct "important" military exercises around Taiwan, in the waters and in the airspace near the autonomous island claimed by Beijing, starting today in 5 areas. It has announced with a statement Colonel Shi Yi, spokesman of the Chinese armed forc…
PLA Eastern Theater Command conducts combat readiness patrols around Taiwan Island
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command is dispatching its naval and air forces to carry out combat readiness patrols around Taiwan Island, a military spokesperson said Monday.
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