Chinese Army Beijing officials said large-scale drills were launched around Taiwan on Tuesday to send a “serious warning” and convey a message of “a strong curb against Taiwan’s independence.”
Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense said it has tracked 19 Chinese naval vessels in the island’s waters from 6 a.m. to 6 a.m. on Monday to Tuesday, 24 hours. These exercises – involving Chinese Navy, Air, Ground and Rocket Forces – were not notified.
“China’s blatant military provocation not only threatens peace in the Taiwan Strait, but also demonstrates security throughout the region during exercises near Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and the South China Sea, the President of Taiwan wrote on X. We strongly condemn China’s escalation.”
Taiwan Defense Officials They have been tracking the actions of China’s Shandong Airlines since Saturday, with its operator group entering Taiwan’s air defense signage zone on Monday, added. In response, Taiwan sent military aircraft and ships and activated the land-based missile system.
This screenshot shows China’s Shandong aircraft carrier from the video “Sundue Demons and Vanquish Edils” released on April 1, 2025 by the Eastern Theater Command of the People’s Liberation Army. (Conductor/handout for Eastern Theater via Reuters)
“I would like to say that these actions fully reflect the destruction of regional peace and stability (China) by[China],” said Taiwan’s Defense Minister Wellington Koo.
China’s Xinhua News Agency said on Tuesday that the Eastern Theater Command “has conducted a variety of thematic exercises in the waters of the northern, southern and eastern Taiwan Island.”
The Theater Command “organized its ship and aircraft formations with traditional missile forces and long-range rocket launch systems for air interception training, attacks on maritime targets, strikes on ground objects, and attacks on joint blockades and controls.”
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A military jet landed on April 1 at a think tank air force base in Beiqiu, Taiwan. (Reuters/Annabelle Chih)
The commander said the purpose of these exercises was to test the troops’ ability to conduct integrated operations, seize operational controls and multi-directional precision strikes.
Taiwan Affairs Office Practice says Targeting Taiwan’s strong independent president Lecht.
The image released by the Taiwan Ministry of Defense shows that on Monday, March 31, China’s Shandong Airlines sailed near Taiwan. (Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense through AP)
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“Lai Ching-te insisted on the ‘Taiwan independence’ position, boldly labeled the mainland as a ‘foreign hostile force’ and proposed a so-called “17-point strategy… inciting anti-China sentiment,” China’s Taiwan Affairs Office had to object in its speech.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
