China held on Wednesday that they included real fire in front of the Southwestern Coast of Taiwan, as reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Self -Governor Island. According to a statement issued by the Taiwanese authorities, 32 Chinese aircraft delimited “without prior notice” an exercise area 74 kilometers from the coast of Kaohsiung and Pingtung, under the pretext of carrying out “shot training”. Taipéi has branded these actions as “provocative and dangerous”, while Beijing has avoided ruling on the matter. Last week, Australia and New Zealand accused China of carrying out similar trials in him.
The Taiwanese Ministry of Defense notified this afternoon that, between 08.42 and 14.10 (01.42 and 07.10, Spanish peninsular time), 32 Chinese aircraft were detected flying over the vicinity of the two main cities in southern Taiwan, Kaohsiung and Pingtung, that house important naval and aerial bases. The first is also the largest port of the island and a key node for global maritime trade.
22 of those planes crossed the midline of the Strait and entered the Taiwanese air defense identification zone. Among the combat devices J-11 fighters were distinguished, KJ-500 early alert planes and drones.
Taipéi has loaded against his neighbor for “openly violating international standards” and has described his operations as a “flagrant challenge to regional security.” “[Las maniobras] They go against China’s claims that he intends to collaborate with the international community in the search for peace and prosperity, in a way that promotes mutual respect, ”he quotes the Taiwanese news agency CNA.
The Taiwanese defense portfolio ensures that Chinese aircraft and warships made a “joint combat preparation patrol”. This is the ninth of this type so far from 2025 and the fifth in February, according to military authorities.
The Asian giant about Taiwan from the (to which), in May last year. In mid-February, the highest American commander in the Indo-Pacific region, Admiral Samuel Paparo, warned that Chinese maneuvers and have acquired such size that they could serve as a pretext to cover up an invasion of the island.
“We are very close to that point where, daily, the excuse of an exercise could hide a real mobilization,” said Paparo in the Honolulu Defense Forum (Hawaii, USA), last day 16. “The maneuvers aggressive that [China] It is carrying out around Taiwan they are not exercises, as they call them, but essays. Taiwan unification tests with the continent, ”he said.
The Popular Republic considers Taiwan a rebel province and its “reunification with the country” a “historical mission of the Communist Party.” Ancient Formosa is the place where nationalist troops took refuge in 1949 after being defeated by the communist army in the Civil War. Although Beijing says that it intends unification by the peaceful route ,.
The relationship with Taipéi has deteriorated significantly since the Democratic Progressive Party (PPD, of Chinesecheptic Court) assumed power in 2016. And the PPD, the option that least liked in Beijing, became the first formation to achieve a third mandate consecutive from the first democratic elections of the island, held in 1996.
Although the Chinese news agency, Xinhua, does not mention the maneuvers on Wednesday, did this morning that Wang Huning, fourth in the hierarchy of the Communist Party, has emphasized in a conference the importance of “taking the initiative in relations through of the Strait “,” Promote without hesitation the cause of the reunification of the homeland “and” furate the provocations aimed at the independence of Taiwan. “
