{"id":39462,"date":"2024-05-23T10:57:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T10:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39462"},"modified":"2024-05-23T10:57:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T10:57:21","slug":"taiwan-condemns-china-drills-as-irrational-provocations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39462","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan condemns China drills as ‘irrational provocations’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Taiwan’s defence ministry has condemned China’s military exercises around the self-ruled island as “irrational provocations”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drills come just three days after the inauguration of Taiwanese president William Lai, whom Beijing has labelled as a “separatist” and a “troublemaker”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are happening all around the main island, and the Taipei-controlled islands of Kinmen, Matsu, Wuqiu and Dongyin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has called them a “strong punishment” for “separatist acts”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taipei has dispatched naval, air, and ground forces to “defend the [island’s] sovereignty”, its defence ministry added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China’s military said its drills focus on joint sea-air combat-readiness patrols, precision strikes on key targets, and integrated operations inside and outside the island to test the “joint real combat capabilities” of its forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Military analysts say Taiwan\u2019s outlying islands close to the Chinese coast have been included as targets for the first time, based on maps released by the PLA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taiwanese media cited military expert Chieh Chung saying the ongoing exercise is aimed at “simulating a full-scale armed invasion of Taiwan”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August 2022, following a historic visit by then US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, China carried out its first \u201cencirclement\u201d operation, simulating a blockade of the main island of Taiwan with ships, aircraft and missile strikes. Military incursions into Taiwanese waters and airspace have become a nearly weekly affair since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BBC: Taiwan’s defence ministry has condemned China’s military exercises around the self-ruled island as “irrational provocations”. The drills come just three days after the inauguration of Taiwanese president William Lai, whom Beijing has labelled as a “separatist” and a “troublemaker”. They are happening all around the main island, and the Taipei-controlled islands of Kinmen, Matsu, Wuqiu and Dongyin. A spokesperson for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has called them a “strong punishment” for “separatist acts”. Taipei has dispatched naval, air, and ground forces to “defend the [island’s] sovereignty”, its defence ministry added. China’s military said its drills focus on… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39464,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39462\/revisions\/39464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}