China starts large -scale military exercises around Taiwan

The Chinese armed forces started on Tuesday on large -scale military exercises aimed at Taiwan. According to Reuters news agency Both the army and the navy and the air and rocket power of China are involved in the operation. China says that the goal is to hit Taiwan « from multiple directions ».

According to China, the military exercises must « serve » as a powerful warning and deterrent against Taiwanese independence « . At least nineteen Chinese warships in the waters around Taiwan were observed on Tuesday, and according to the authorities in Taipei, an aircraft carrier would have been deployed, among other things.

‘Parasite’

Part of the announcement of the military operation is a series of videos that the Chinese army has placed on social media platform Weibo. In it the Taiwanese President Lai Ching-Te is called a « a parasite ».

China sees the independently governed Taiwan as an apostate province, and says it wants to take the island with military means if necessary. In recent years, China has performed the number of patrols and exercises around Taiwan.

The exercises may count on a sharp conviction from the United States. Earlier on Monday wrote the Washington Post About a secret policy memo of the US government, in which Trump would attach great importance to the deterrent of China and opposing his ambitions with Taiwan.

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