China has organized "multi-service combat readiness" and "real combat exercises" in the sea and airspace around Taiwan in response to "recent US-Taiwan collusion."
The spokesman for the Eastern Command of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Shi Yi, in a statement attacked the words of President Joe Biden on the US intervention to defend the island in the event of a Chinese attack (later corrected), saying that "it is hypocritical and futile for the US to say one thing and do another about Taiwan, and often encourage Taiwan's independence forces."
