{"id":114064,"date":"2024-10-14T14:29:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T07:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114064"},"modified":"2024-10-14T14:29:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T07:29:46","slug":"china-holds-large-scale-military-exercises-surrounding-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114064","title":{"rendered":"China holds large-scale military exercises surrounding Taiwan"},"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>\n<p>TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) \u2014 China held large-scale military exercises surrounding Taiwan and its outlying islands Monday, deploying an aircraft carrier along with warplanes, in a move that underscores the tense situation in the Taiwan Strait. <\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Defense Ministry said the drills were a response to the Taiwanese president\u2019s refusal to concede to Beijing\u2019s demands that self-ruled Taiwan acknowledge itself as a part of the People\u2019s Republic of China under the rule of the Communist Party. <\/p>\n<p>The drills came four days after Taiwan <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/taiwan-national-day-c40f5a7f16e9cb1c12f936d489de283a\">celebrated the founding of its government<\/a><\/span> on its National Day, during which Taiwan\u2019s President Lai Ching-te said in a speech that China has no right to represent Taiwan and declared his commitment to \u201cresist annexation or encroachment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur military will definitely deal with the threat from China appropriately\u201d said Joseph Wu, secretary-general of Taiwan\u2019s security council at a forum in Taipei. \u201cThreatening other countries with force violates the basic spirit of the United Nations Charter to resolve disputes through peaceful means.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Presidential Office of Taiwan called on China to \u201ccease military provocations that undermine regional peace and stability and stop threatening Taiwan\u2019s democracy and freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A map aired on China\u2019s state broadcaster CCTV showed six large blocks encircling Taiwan indicating where the military drills are being held, along with circles drawn around Taiwan\u2019s outlying islands. China\u2019s Defense Ministry has not said how long the drills will last.<\/p>\n<p>China deployed its Liaoning aircraft carrier for the drills, and CCTV showed a J-15 fighter jet taking off from the decks of the carrier, though the exact location of the carrier is unclear. <\/p>\n<p>The PLA\u2019s Eastern Theater Command spokesperson Navy Senior Captain Li Xi said the navy, army air force, missile corps were all mobilized for the drills, as it was an integrated operation. \u201cThis is a major warning to those who back Taiwan independence and a signifier of our determination to safeguard our national sovereignty,\u201d Li said in a statement on the service\u2019s public media channel.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s Defense Ministry said it had deployed its warships to designated spots in the ocean where they\u2019d carry out surveillance and stand at ready. It also deployed its mobile missile and radar groups on land to track the vessels at sea. As of Monday morning, they had tracked 25 Chinese warplanes and seven warships and four Chinese government ships, though it did not specify what types of ships they were.<\/p>\n<p>China held similar large-scale exercises after <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/taiwan-president-lai-chingte-af4ff1f254e11c24f751cea000fb42d9\">Lai was inaugurated in May<\/a><\/span>. Lai continues the eight-year rule of the Democratic Progressive Party that rejects China\u2019s demand that it recognize Taiwan is a part of China. <\/p>\n<p>Also on Monday, China\u2019s Taiwan Affairs Office announced it was sanctioning two Taiwanese individuals, Puma Shen and Robert Tsao, for their work in promoting Taiwan independence. Shen is the co-founder of the Kuma Academy, a nonprofit that trains civilians on wartime readiness. Tsao donated $32.8 million to fund the academy\u2019s training courses. Shen and Tsao are forbidden to travel to China, including Hong Kong. <\/p>\n<p>China also held massive military exercises around Taiwan and simulated a blockade in 2022, after a visit to the island by <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/taiwan-asia-beijing-nancy-pelosi-taipei-938933cfaea62b31e7577b0a2a4f7006\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a><\/span>, who was then speaker of the U.S. House. China routinely states that Taiwan independence is a \u201cdead end\u201d and that annexation by Beijing is a historical inevitability. China\u2019s military has increased its encircling of Taiwan\u2019s skies and waters in the past few years, holding joint drills with its warships and fighter jets on a near-daily basis near the island. <\/p>\n<p>On the streets of Taipei, the capital, residents were undeterred. \u201cI don\u2019t worry, I don\u2019t panic either, it doesn\u2019t have any impact to me\u201d Chang Chia-rui said.<\/p>\n<p>Another Taipei resident, Jeff Huang, said: \u201cTaiwan is very stable now, and I am used to China\u2019s military exercises. I have been threatened by this kind of threats since I was a child, and I am used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan was a Japanese colony before being unified with China at the end of World War II. It split away in 1949 when Chiang Kai-shek\u2019s Nationalists fled to the island as Mao Zedong\u2019s Communists defeated them in a civil war and took power.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Wu reported from Bangkok.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Follow AP\u2019s Asia-Pacific coverage at <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/asia-pacific\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/asia-pacific<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><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:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/taiwan-china-military-drills-053fbadaf1125be4adfee7a7e6d1ce79\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) \u2014 China held large-scale military exercises surrounding Taiwan and its outlying islands Monday, deploying an aircraft carrier along with warplanes, in a move that underscores the tense &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114064\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}