Taiwan sent navy, land and air force on Wednesday after China launched a living fire zone only 40 nautical miles from the Taiwan coast.
Taiwanese Ministry of Defense He says this became aware only when the local Taiwanese vessels were warned to stay outside the area after the exercises began. The drills are focused on the coast of the Taiwanese port town of Kaohsiuung. Taiwanese officials say that China “sharply violated international norms” by the unilateral naming of the drilling zone.
“This move not only is a high risk for safety of navigation to international flights and ships at sea, but also a sharp provocation of regional security and stability,” the Ministry of Defense said.
As part of the exercise, Taiwan says that he discovered 32 Chinese military aircraft that performed joint exercises with warships. Chinese officials have not recognized Taiwan’s complaints so far.
Taiwan sent navy vessels, as well as air and land forces to monitor Chinese exercises of living fires this week. (Walid Berrazeg/AFP via Getty Images)
Exercises around Taiwan are just the latest example of Chinese aggression this month. The army of the country also launched the exercises of living fire along the coast of Vietnam, as well as between New Zealand and Australia, forcing commercial flights between the two countries to divert.
The exercise on Wednesday followed a few days after the four -time leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Wang Hunting, called for greater efforts of “re -unification”. China has long claimed that Taiwan is a rebel territory belonging to Beijing.
China “must firmly understand the right to dominate and take the initiative in mutual relationships, and unconsciously push forward the cause of the re -unification of the homeland,” Hunting said, according to the translation of Chinese state media.
Wang Hunting, the leader of the fourth rank of the Chinese Communist Party, has called for greater efforts this week in reuniting with Taiwan. (Photo Rao Aimin/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping has repeatedly said in recent years that he is ready to take over Taiwan.
Chinese exercises come the day after the Taiwan’s Coast Guard (CGA) Closed the Chinese crew a ship registered by Snveses suspected of interrupting an optical cable on Tuesday, connecting the islands of Taiwan and Penghu.
CGA says that the vessel, Hong Tai 168, passed about 925 meters cable from 19:00 local time on February 2nd. On Tuesday, at 02:30, a ship of the Coast Guard was shipped, demanding that, demanding that vessel leaves the area, the state media in Taiwan said.
The Coast Guard officials received confirmation that Taiwan-Penghu no. 3, and they began efforts for the detention of the Chinese crew of the ship. All eight crew members were Chinese nationals, Toward the coastal guard.
Two Coast Guards staff in Taiwan board a cargo ship to spend an inspection, as it is suspected that a cargo ship damaged a cable cable connecting the island of Taiwan and Penghu Island, in the waters outside Penghua, Taiwan, February 25, 2025. (Taiwanese coastal guard / brochure / Anadolo via Getty Images)
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Taiwan split from Continental China in 1949, when the Vice -active forces fled to the island after losing the civil war from the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong.