Taiwan sent the navy, land and air forces on Wednesday after China launched a live exercise area 40 nautical miles off the coast of Taiwan.
The Ministry of Defense in Taiwan He says he is only aware of the exercise when local Taiwanese ships were warned against staying outside the area after the start of the training. The exercises are centered off the coast of the city of Kaohsiung in Taiwan Port. Taiwanese officials say that China “violated international standards starkly” by setting the unilateral drilling zone.
“This step does not pose high risk of safety of traveling in international trips and ships at sea, but rather it is also a flagrant provocation of regional security and stability,” the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
As part of the exercises, Taiwan says it has discovered 32 Chinese military aircraft carrying out joint exercises with warships. Chinese officials have not yet recognized the complaints of Taiwan.
Taiwan has sent marine ships as well as the Air and Land Force to monitor China's live training this week. (Walid Prazig/AFP via Getty Images)
Taiwan training is only the latest example of Chinese aggression this month. The country also launched live training on the coast of Vietnam as well as between New Zealand and Australia, forcing trade trips between the two countries to convert it.
The exercise on Wednesday came a few days after Wang Hong, the leader of the Communist Party of China, called for “unification” efforts. China has long maintained that Taiwan is a rebellious area belonging to Beijing.
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Hingh said, according to the translation of the Chinese media, that China “must” firmly firmly control the relations between the interrupted strait, and pushing it forward in an unbearable issue that did not reunite the motherland. “
Wang Henning, the fourth leader of the Communist Party of China, called for more efforts to reunite with Taiwan this week. (Photography Rao Aimin/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping has repeatedly said in recent years he is ready to take Taiwan by force.
China's training comes one day after the Taiwan Coast Guard (CGA) The Chinese crew detain From a ship registered of Togolese, suspected of cutting the optical fiber cable connecting the Taiwan and Bango Islands on Tuesday.
CGA says the Hong Tae 168, was hanging around 925 meters of cable since 7 pm local time on February 22. The Coast Guard ship was sent to the ship at 2:30 am on Tuesday, calling for this, and the state -owned media said that the ship is leaving the area.
Coast Guard officials have received confirmation that the Taiwan Bingo Cable No. 3 under the sea was cut at 3 am on Tuesday, and they started efforts to detain the Chinese ship's crew. It was all the eight crew members Chinese citizens, According to the Coast Guard.
Two Coast Guard employees in Taiwan have formed a cargo ship for inspection, where the shipping ship is suspected of catching a submarine cable linking Taiwan Island and Pingo Island, in the water off the Bingo, Taiwan, on February 25, 2025. (Coast Guard Taiwan / Anadolu Bulletin via Getty Images)
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Taiwan separated from China on the mainland in 1949, when the forces supporting democracy fled to the island after losing a civil war against the Chinese Communist Party in Mao Zaidong.
