The drills are a warning to Taiwan's new president, who this week called on China in his inaugural address to cease its intimidation of Taiwan.
The drills are a warning to Taiwan's new president, who this week called on China in his inaugural address to cease its intimidation of Taiwan.Taiwanese air force Mirage 2000 fighter jets wait for take off at a base in Hsinchu in northern Taiwan on Thursday.China has launched military drills surrounding Taiwan the week the democratic Asian island inaugurated a new president who called on China in his inaugural address to “cease its political and military intimidation” of Taiwan.
China’s eastern theater command says the air force, navy, and infantry will be involved in the war games, which will last until Friday. China’s state media outlet said the drills were a show of force intended to “serve as a strong punishment for the separatist acts of Taiwan independence forces” – a veiled reference to Taiwan’s new presidentair and naval forces to monitor the drills, which its defense ministry called an “irrational provocation” that “highlights hegemonic nature.
But the timing and the scale of the drills, which last until Friday, is a grim reminder that China wants control over self-ruled Taiwan andall sides of Taiwan and its smaller, outlying islands in the summer of 2022, after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei,released this month from the Washington D.C.-based think tank Brookings Institute found in 2023, 64.8% of respondents reported they were worried about a war between China and Taiwan, up 7.4 percentage points from 2021.
In response to Chinese military aggression, Lai’s party, the Democratic Progressive Party, helmed by his predecessor, former president Tsai Ing-wen,and increased military spending, measures that they argue will deter a Chinese invasion from happening by making the cost of war too high. Last year, they alsobefore entering politics, has been dogged by comments he made in 2017, when he was Taiwan’s premier, in which he said he was a “pragmatic worker for Taiwan's independence.
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