Chinese ships practice near Taiwan

The Taiwan authorities announced on Tuesday morning about the detection of 19 Chinese ships during the last day and the distribution by China near the Shandong island. On this day, the Chinese People's Army began a large-scale military maneuvers around Taiwan with the participation of all types of troops.

Maneuvers are aimed at simulating the island's locking and impacts on sea and land purposes.

Command of the Eastern Theater of Action, responsible for the region of the Taiwan Strait, announced that the exercises focus on “blocking key areas and marine routes”, as well as “attacking sea and land targets”. Command spokesman, Colonel Shi Yi, emphasized that these activities constitute “a justified and necessary action to protect the sovereignty and national unity of China.”

“Unification of the Homeland” is inevitable

The Chinese army has published graphic materials in social media, including a video depicting the president Taiwan Lai Ching-Te as a “parasite” and a poster, which shows Chinese combat aircraft and ships around the island, which appears the inscription “We are approaching” in traditional Chinese signs that are used in Taiwan.

The authorities in Taipei condemned the exercises, recognizing them as a threat to peace and stability in the region. The Taiwan Ministry of Defense announced sending troops to monitor the situation and reaction.

The communist authorities in Beijing say that Taiwan is part Chinaalthough they have never controlled this territory. The leader of the PRC XI Jinping maintains that “the unification of the homeland” is inevitable and is a condition of “the great revival of the Chinese nation.” Does not exclude armed intervention for this purpose. According to Beijing, the democratically elected President of Taiwan, Lai Ching-Te, is a “dangerous separatist”.

Exercise scale

Current exercises are the largest since February, when Taipei informed about the Chinese “sharp shooting” with the participation of aircraft and war ships at a distance of about 74 kilometers from the southern coast of the island. Similar maneuvers, in which the island was cut off, took place, among others in October last year.

The Taiwan authorities announced on Tuesday morning about the detection of 19 Chinese ships during the last day and the SHRL is deployed by the PRC near the island of Shandong. The Taiwanese Ministry of Defense has established the Center for the Monitoring of the activity of Chinese troops.

Last week, the American daily “Wall Street Journal” pointed out that the Chinese army achieved the ability to block the sea of ​​Taiwan. However, due to the fact that such action would be an act of war, China's armed forces would take “quarantine” as a less escalating form of pressure.

Taiwan is particularly sensitive to blockage due to high addiction to the import of energy sources (96 percent is imported gas or coal) and food (70 percent).

The tensions between China and Taiwan date back to 1949, when the nationalist forces of Kuominang under the leadership of Czang Kaj-Szek escaped to the island after losing the civil war with the communists of Mao Zedong. The island was partly or completely ruled at different times by the Dutch, Spaniards, the Chinese Qing dynasty and Japan.