Taipei threatens China to respond to its military exercises with live ammunition

Maximum voltage in Taiwan. For two days, China will military exercises with a real fire on the islanddeploying troops, warships, combat aircraft and artillery, while Taipei deploys soldiers and displays American weapons to rehearse how to repel an attack. Taiwan has already warned that there will be a response in the event of a threat.

The Chinese military maneuvers were launched this Monday, under the name Mission Justice 2025they are looking for show a “strengthening of siege” on the island and increase strategic pressure on Taipei in response to the strengthening of American military support for Taiwan, according to the analysis of Chinese military experts cited by the state press.

The Taiwanese government condemned the exercises, accusing China of “military intimidation”, while its Defense Ministry said it was “fully on guard” and ordered its military to respond to any threats.

These maneuvers come a few weeks after Washington and Taipei announced at the beginning of the month one of the largest American arms sales to the island.

The exercises cover five areas located in the Taiwan Strait and areas to the north, southwest, southeast and east of the island, in an operation that involves the forces of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force.

In an image released by the Eastern Theater Command itself, the exercise areas are shown as several rectangles surrounding the island, a layout which, according to the official statement, reflects an “multidirectional” deployment of forces with simultaneous approaches from different points.

Chinese military maneuvers around Taiwan are included attacks against maritime and land targets, anti-submarine operations and exercises to achieve “regional air superiority,” military sources reported.

In a first statement, the Eastern Theater Command of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA, Chinese army) indicated that there was used fighters, bombers and unmanned aerial vehicles, in coordination with long-range artillery, to conduct attack exercises against “moving land targets” in the central areas of the Taiwan Strait.

This command, in charge of Chinese military operations around the island, also reported the same day having used destroyers, frigates, fighters, bombers and droness for training in the waters and airspace to the north and southwest of the autonomous territory.

“The training focuses on hunting and neutralizing targets in water and airspace, simulated attacks against land targets and live fire against targets in water,” the PLA said via its official Weibo account – similar to X, censored in China –.

In a third phase, the Command announced that it had undertaken maneuvers with warships and aircraft in eastern Taiwan waters and airspacefocused on “assaulting maritime targets, gaining regional air superiority, as well as submarine hunting and anti-submarine operations.”

“The exercises tested the capabilities of air-sea coordination and precise search, identification and neutralization of targets,” the statement said.

Coast Guard

For his part, the Chinese Coast Guard announced this Monday the start of “full law enforcement” patrols in the waters near Taiwan and around the Matsu and Wuqiu archipelagos, close to the Chinese coast but controlled by Taipei.

In a statement published on its official account on the social network WeChat, a spokesperson for the Chinese coast guard noted that, as of December 29, the coast guard of the Chinese province of Fujian, located opposite Taiwan, deployed naval formations in the maritime areas adjacent to the aforementioned places.

According to spokesperson Zhu Anqing, the operation constitutes a “practical measure” to “exercise jurisdiction” in accordance with the “one China” principle, defended by Beijing, over Taiwan and its adjacent islands.

These maneuvers are part of the operation called “Mission Justice-2025”, announced this Monday by the Chinese authorities, who defined it as an action aimed at “issue a serious warning” to Taiwanese independence forces and foreign powers which, in Beijing’s view, is interfering in the Taiwan issue.

The maneuvers are organized in a context marked in recent weeks by the strengthening of American military support for Taipei and by the deterioration of relations between China and Japan following the declarations of the Japanese Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, on the possible intervention of Japanese forces in a conflict around Taiwan, remarks which exasperated Beijing.

Taiwan has been governed autonomously since 1949, But Beijing considers the island an “inalienable part” of its territory and does not rule out the use of force to achieve reunification, a position rejected by the Taipei government.

However, P.Ekin has always considered the island as an “inalienable part” of its territory and In recent years, he has redoubled his pressure campaign against him to achieve “national reunification”, essential to the president’s long-term goal. Xi Jinping, to achieve the “rejuvenation” of the Chinese nation.