China Plans Four Days of Military Drills in Areas Encircling Taiwan

[TheProle]

Source: Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- China declared it would conduct missile tests and military drills around Taiwan shortly after US House speaker Nancy Pelosi defied Beijing on Tuesday by landing on the island.

The People’s Liberation Army said it would stage a series of military drills including “long-range live firing in the Taiwan Strait” from Tuesday evening.

“This action is targeted at the US’s shocking recent major escalation on the Taiwan issue, and serves as a serious warning to Taiwanese independence forces or those seeking independence,” Shi Yi, a spokesperson for the Eastern Theater Command, said in a statement.

Separately, the official Xinhua News Agency announced military drills would take place from Aug. 4-7 in six areas that encircle Taiwan, giving coordinates for the exercises. “For safety reasons, relevant ships and aircraft should not enter the above sea areas and airspaces during this period,” Xinhua added.

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[MarineCombatEngineer]

1. You just know there's going to be US assets monitoring these "exercises"

whether by ship, sub, aircraft or all the above.

[speak easy]

6. Free intel.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

7. Yes indeedy. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

9. There's an LBN thread on what is being deployed by the U.S. out of Japan

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142950404

It's "that time of year" for those "exercises".

[DakotaSnow]

13. AWACS

Going to be some E-3 Sentry's doing a lazy loiter in the entire area the next few days.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

14. And satellites dedicated to tracking Chinese assets and gaining intelligence of how the PLAN

operates.

[IronLionZion]

2. Are they going to pull a Russian style attack?

They've been threating punishment for Pelosi's visit.

[Magoo48]

4. What a clusterfuck. A festival of some of the worlds most toxic, pollution spewing machines

shaking their mechanical dicks at each other for no productive reason.

[highplainsdem]

8. Amazing what one confident, unarmed woman can do to insecure men.

[Novara]

12. +1

[sybylla]

17. +1

[Baggies]

10. They'll eventually take back Taiwan

It just a matter of when.

[LudwigPastorius]

11. Translation: We, decrepit authoritarian men, are upset that an American woman...

won't bow to our wishes.

...and we have small penises.

[rollin74]

15. four days of temper tantrums from a bully

oh goody

[Hekate]

16. China has had its military jets aggressively buzzing Taiwan for some time now...

I have been speculating that their purpose is to test whether or not America is still interested in protecting our satellites in the region — i.e. Taiwan.

China is in the process of taking over control of large swathes of the Southern Pacific Ocean. China’s interpretation of what’s happening in Ukraine is not “America’s back,” but “this is a post-America world now.”

[llashram]

18. they are

as bad as Putin not allowing countries to maintain their independence. Taiwan first. What's next?

[Martin68]

19. A Chinese mega-tantrum or cover for an invasion? I go for the former.

[Darwins_Retriever]

20. Sounds like a good time for a US carrier battle group (or 2)

to check out the S. China Sea.