The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) held military drills featuring warplanes near Taiwan on Friday as part of “military struggle preparations against the island,” Chinese state media reported on Friday.
Global Times, a Communist Party propaganda newspaper, said multiple PLA warplanes – including H-6 bombers, KJ-500 early warning aircraft, and J-11 fighter jets – conducted a far-sea, long-range drill above southwestern waters near the island of Taiwan.
The PLA warplanes were seen flying over waters southwest of Taiwan and then entering the skies over the Bashi Channel – located between Taiwan and the Philippines – before returning to base via the same route, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) confirmed on Friday. Taiwan’s armed forces are closely monitoring the country’s surrounding waters and airspace, Taiwanese military spokesman Shih Shun-wen said.
Friday’s drill marks the sixth time this year that PLA aircraft have been recorded operating near Taiwan’s airspace, according to Taiwan’s MND.
On April 2, China’s PLA reported that the Chinese military command responsible for patrols around Taiwan staged a long-endurance, early-warning exercise in March. The drill was intended to simulate quickly countering enemy planes during wartime, a PLA officer said at the time.
In early February, China organized army-navy war games near Taiwan and surrounded the country with warplanes. Following days of drills, China’s PLA Eastern Theatre Command said its forces had carried out “air-ground assault and fire support drills to further refine and test their multi-service joint combat capabilities.”
In response, the United States recently sent military aircraft to operate near Taiwanese airspace to show support for Taiwan. The U.S. claims to be allied with Taiwan, but does not formally recognize that it is a sovereign state. On March 25, the U.S. sent EP-3E Aries electronic warfare and reconnaissance aircraft to fly near Kaohsiung, in southern Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
On Friday, Taiwan’s MND said it had also spotted a U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft flying near its airspace, with some suggesting that the U.S. may have been monitoring the unusual activity by the PLA warplanes in the area that same day.
China’s recent drills near Taiwan come after the U.S. signed the Taiwan Allies and International Protection and Enhancement Initiative (TAIPEI) Act into law on March 4, which enhances U.S. support for Taiwan. According to TAIPEI, the U.S. will reduce its economic, security, and diplomatic engagements with nations that take significant actions to undermine Taiwan, especially China.
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You are right, Adolf Hitler was a human being who did everything to avoid war, with Poland,Britain and France, but these countries forced the war onto Germany. Hitler had no choice other than to move against Britain and France after Chamberlain was overthrown by the Churchill gang because Hitler knew that the Zionist-Jew Churchill would stop at nothing to destroy Germany and the German People. I recently watched a speech given by Adolf Hitler (thank heavens for the internet) in which he said that they, Britain and France, will have to overthrow Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Deladier before they can have their war, which is exactly what happened. Germany was forced to occupy Norway and Denmark to preserve their neutrality and prevent The British and French from invading the two countries to attack Germany. Every move that Adolf Hitler made was forced on him by Britain, USA, France, and the Soviet Union. As for the film “The Downfall”, this film is just Jew propaganda made in Jewish Hollywood to fool the ignorant gentiles. If Stalin and his Jewish-Bolsheviks had succeeded in invading Christian Europe in the summer of 1941, which was their plan, the Roman Catholic Church and two thousand years of Christian civilisation would have been utterly destroyed. Very few people to day have got the courage to admit that Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and the National Socialist European Army saved Christian Europe. They prefer to follow the narrative of the fake Jews who began demonising Adolf Hitler long before he became the leader of Germany and have never stopped since. I would recommend that you read a brilliant book called:THE FORCED WAR, written by an American professor.
Powerful discourse!Thanks for speaking your mind intelligently
Classic military strategy- Attack an enemy when distracted. My own opinion is that the CCP are in deep trouble and unstable. I am not sure whether the CCP deliberately released this apparent bioweapon, or the Gates scumbags. The CCP may just be acting like this to save itself. It will not be able to now, no matter what it does. Neither do I buy into the Biblical BS about “Last Days” and tribulation. I am a Bishop in the Old Catholic Church but my head is still free to think for itself and outside the Cult boxes that include Nazism, Marxism, Islamism, Judaism and a plethora of global nut jobs. Simply deploying scripture and repeating it ad infinitum, really pees me off. Christ said “Take responsibility for your actions” not become lazy ideological ciphers for every wack job in the Universe. The current Pope is a disgrace but I stick to Christ’s original Natural Law and Christianity without the Cult buy in.Personally I am sick to death of all the effing “isms”. Nobody fully comprehends the true meaning of Christ’s and St. Paul’s words. Any idiot can hate but most cannot empathise, let alone love.
As a Bishop I have to go beyond hate and virtue signalling and ideology. I have to examine the soul of the man. Love the man hate the actions. I got into trouble because I showed empathy for Hitler in the film “The Downfall”. Hitler was still a human being. I hated his actions but that does not stop me feeling empathy for his destruction. Most people begin with good intentions…Even Hitler. Power and ambition destroys them as it will destroy the CCP. Look at Jeremy Corbyn to make my point. The stupid and ignorant are incapable of thinking outside the box beyond hatred and prejudice.