Just one day after the threat of exercises over the visit of Nancy Pelosi ended, the regime mobilizes more troops off the coast of the island
The maneuvers concluded on Sunday, by which China threatened Taiwan in response to Nancy Pelosi’s visit, herald a new period of hostile militarism in the region. One that has barely taken hours to manifest: this Monday, the regime will return to exercises around the island.
Residents of Huangqi, a Chinese fishing port on the coast of the Strait of Formosa, have celebrated the resumption of troop movements just a few kilometers away. “If the war started at noon, we would have ended it at three,” brags a neighbor. “If they declare independence, we’ll be there immediately. Today’s China is no longer the China of yesteryear.
On this occasion, the People’s Liberation Army is conducting anti-submarine and amphibious assault operations as would be required to take over Taiwan, which it sees as an insurgent province that has never given up on subduing it by force. In the previous four days, the deployment of air and naval forces simulated a blockade of the perimeter of the island that would complement the offensive.
The Eastern Theater Command has confirmed this new round in a statement, without revealing its location or duration. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for its part, defended during the agency’s daily press conference that these maneuvers are taking place within its territorial waters, in an “open, transparent and professional” manner, in accordance with international law. Official media are pointing out that from now on, these types of exercises may increase in frequency and may include continuous incursions by aircraft and battleships beyond the median line, the official division dividing both sides of the Strait of Formosa.
Despite the extension of China’s maneuvers, Taiwan has begun to restore air and sea traffic after four days of partial suspension, as reported by the Ministry of Transport and Communications. The island’s military has also announced its own drills to research its defensive strength. One of the priorities will be testing the ability to breach a hypothetical blockade, a Defense Ministry spokesman said at a news conference on Monday.
According to the spokesman for the institution, the Chinese armed forces are aiming to expand their operations beyond the successive islands that stand in the way of the Pacific Ocean, from Japan to the Strait of Malacca, via Taiwan, of course. This possibility would explain the simultaneous exercises of the Asian giant in the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea.
Neighboring countries are not immune to these movements. Japan’s defense ministry announced Monday that it had mobilized fighters over the weekend in response to intrusions into its airspace in the seas off Japan, Okhotsk and eastern China. Although the body did not directly name China, five of the ballistic missiles fired at Taiwan fell into the waters of Japan’s exclusive economic zone, an unprecedented move and a harbinger of future conflict.
Source: La Verdad
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