{"id":114004,"date":"2024-10-14T10:25:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T03:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114004"},"modified":"2024-10-14T10:25:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T03:25:46","slug":"china-starts-new-round-of-war-games-near-democratic-taiwan-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114004","title":{"rendered":"China starts new round of war games near democratic Taiwan | Politics News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p class=\"p1\">China\u2019s military has started a new round of war games with ships and aircraft near Taiwan, just days after the self-ruled democratic island marked its National Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The exercises, dubbed Joint Sword-2024B, were taking place in \u201careas to the north, south and east of Taiwan island\u201d Captain Li Xi, the spokesman for the Chinese military\u2019s Eastern Theatre Command, said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the drills were \u201cfocusing on subjects of sea-air combat-readiness patrol, blockade on key ports and areas\u201d and would also involve an \u201cassault on maritime and ground targets\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The drills were a \u201clegitimate and necessary operation for safeguarding state sovereignty and national unity\u201d, he added, giving no date for their conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s Ministry of Defence expressed its strong condemnation of China\u2019s \u201cirrational and provocative actions\u201d and said it had \u201cdispatched appropriate forces to respond accordingly to protect freedom and democracy, and defend the sovereignty\u201d of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>As of 8am (00:00 GMT), it said some 25 PLA aircraft and a total of 11 ships, including seven from the navy, were found operating around Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential office said China should respect the Taiwan people\u2019s choice of a free and democratic way of life and refrain from military provocations.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, China has stepped up its military activity around Taiwan, which it claims as its own. The latest drills come just days after the island\u2019s President William Lai Ching-te gave his first National Day address on October 10, promising he would resist any \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/10\/10\/taiwans-president-lai-says-will-resist-annexation-or-encroachment\">annexation or encroachment<\/a>\u201d and that Beijing had no right to represent the island\u2019s 23 million people.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3245318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3245318\" style=\"width:770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3245318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AFP__20241014__36JY2Q7__v1__HighRes__ChinaTaiwanMilitaryDrills-1728870192.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C515\" alt=\"Map released by PLA showing location of their military exercises. hey are all around Taiwan\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3245318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A handout from the PLA Eastern Theatre Command showing the locations of the Joint Sword-2024B exercises [PLA\/Handout via AFP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt was widely anticipated that the PLA [People\u2019s Liberation Army] would conduct military exercises following Lai\u2019s National Day speech,\u201d Bonnie Glaser, the managing director of the German Marshall Fund\u2019s Indo-Pacific programme, told Al Jazeera. \u201cThe drills have the effect of demonstrating to the domestic audience that the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] has the resolve to defend Chinese territory. They are also intended to warn Taipei and Washington not to cross Beijing\u2019s red lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"it-will-pass\">\u2018It will pass\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control and said the drills were a warning to the \u201cseparatist acts of Taiwan independence forces\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It has condemned Lai, who was elected in January and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/5\/20\/william-lai-ching-te-takes-oath-to-become-taiwans-new-president\">took office in May<\/a>, as a \u201cseparatist\u201d and previously staged military exercises, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/5\/23\/china-starts-military-drills-around-the-self-governed-island-of-taiwan\">Joint Sword-2024A<\/a>, three days after his inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>Lev Nachman, a professor of political science at the National Taiwan University in Taipei, said China\u2019s latest actions were no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile military threats are no small matter, we all knew the PRC [People\u2019s Republic of China] would respond to Lai\u2019s Double Ten Day speech with military threats of some sort,\u201d Nachman wrote on X. \u201cThere is no need to panic or overreact. We all saw this coming. It will pass quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his October 10 speech, Lai had also appeared to reach out to Beijing, expressing hope for \u201chealthy and orderly dialogue and exchanges\u201d, and urging Beijing to use its influence to help resolve conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>But China\u2019s state-run Global Times, in an analysis of the speech published on Sunday, quoted analysts describing Lai\u2019s speech as a \u201cpoison pill wrapped in cellophane\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Other state media also accused Lai of promoting a \u201ctwo-state\u201d theory to describe Taiwan and China after he noted last week the different ages of the two governments. The People\u2019s Republic of China, which celebrated its National Day on October 1, is 75 years old, while the Republic of China, which celebrated on October 10 and is headquartered in Taipei, turned 113.<\/p>\n<p>Kuang-shun Yang, the co-founder of the Taipei-based think tank US-Taiwan Watch, said the drills could be China testing the waters internationally at a time of global upheaval, citing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/10\/13\/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-961\">Russia-Ukraine war<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/10\/13\/mapping-one-year-of-cross-border-attacks-between-israel-and-lebanon\">conflicts in the Middle East<\/a> and threats from North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can see that the world has a lot of regional flashpoints that are ongoing and maybe Beijing sees this as \u2026 an opportunity to test their will and see if the world\u2019s support for Taiwan is strong enough,\u201d he told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has sought to erase Taiwan from the international stage, blocking it from global forums and poaching its few remaining formal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/6\/11\/taiwan-takes-pragmatic-approach-to-keep-formal-allies-amid-china-pressure\">diplomatic allies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The United States remains Taiwan\u2019s main international supporter and supplier of weapons.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>With reporting from Erin Hale in Taipei<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/10\/14\/china-starts-new-war-games-near-democratic-taiwan\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s military has started a new round of war games with ships and aircraft near Taiwan, just days after the self-ruled democratic island marked its National Day. 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