2023-08-19 05:34:48
Taiwan has rejected China’s military maneuvers around the island, calling it an “irrational provocation.” (Archyde.com)
Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense expressed its “strong condemnation” of the air and sea military maneuvers that the Chinese regime began this Saturday around the island, and described them as an “irrational provocation,” the ministry said in a statement in their website.
The Ministry said that it “will send adequate forces to deal with the situation” and that it “will defend the freedom, democracy and sovereignty” of the territory with concrete actions.
The military portfolio pointed out that in recent years China has “continuously sent planes and ships to harass Taiwan”, “harming regional security.”
This time, Beijing “has taken advantage of a pretext to start a military exercise” that “reveals its warmongering mentality and its hegemonic nature.”
The Ministry stressed that the Taiwanese military is “ready and willing to fight to ensure national security.”
Likewise, the agency reported the incursion of seven Chinese planes and seven military ships in areas around Taiwan this Saturday until 6:00 local time.
According to the ministry, Taipei responded by fine-tuning its missile systems and monitoring by the armed forces of raids by Chinese planes and ships, which have become routine in recent months.
The Taiwanese Ministry of Defense also denounced the incursion into its air and sea space by seven planes and seven ships of the Xi Jinping regime. (Europe Press)
Chinese Colonel Shi Yi stated that the maneuvers are taking place in the area adjacent to Taiwan, and include the participation of “combat ships and aircraft,” which “practice coordination among themselves” and “control of air and sea space.” ” with the aim of “verifying the real combat capacity” of the participating troops.
China “firmly” condemned this Saturday the “new provocation” of Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (PDP) by “colluding” with the United States, referring to the scales made in recent days by Taiwanese Vice President William Lai in the North American country.
The Chinese moves, the scale of which is currently unknown, also serve as a “serious warning to collusion between ‘Taiwan independence’ separatists with foreign elements and their provocations,” the regime said.
Lai, the PDP candidate for the territory’s upcoming presidential elections, returned to Taipei on Friday after visiting Paraguay – one of the 13 countries that maintain official ties with Taiwan and the only one in South America – and making two stops in the United States on his way. to and from the South American country.
At a lunch in New York, Lai vowed to “resist annexation” if elected and continue to uphold the basic tenets of the Tsai administration.
Last April, China also conducted military exercises around the island when Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen visited the United States in transit on her way to and from Central America.
The Chinese moves, the scale of which is currently unknown, also serve as a “serious warning to collusion between ‘Taiwan independence’ separatists with foreign elements and their provocations,” the regime said.
China claims sovereignty over Taiwan, a territory it considers a “rebel province” since Kuomintang nationalists withdrew there in 1949 after losing the war against the communist army.
The self-governing island is one of the main reasons for friction between China and the US, since the North American country is Taiwan’s main arms supplier and would defend it in the event of a conflict.
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