China simulated attacks on Taiwan on the third day of full-scale military exercises around the island.
This is what the Taipei Defense Ministry claims, stating that several People's Liberation Army fighters and ships were detected today "around the Strait", with some "crossing the midline" in an action of "possible attack. simulated ".
The armed forces of the Republic of China, Taiwan's official name, have used, a statement read, "alert transmissions, aircraft, military patrol vessels and ground missile systems in response to this situation."
Taiwan said that today's Chinese military exercises appeared as a simulated attack on the island of the capital Taipei, as Chinese planes and warships crossed the midline of the Strait in a continuous show of force aimed at destabilizing.
The Taiwanese army responded by following the protocol: radio alarms, sending air patrols and military ships (already mobilized yesterday to follow the Chinese units like a shadow) and deploying ground-based missile systems, the Ministry of Defense reported in a statement. .
The Chinese exercises, now on the third day, are the response to the visit made this week by the speaker of the American House Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking institutional figure to go to the island in the last 25 years.
While Pelosi and the Taiwanese government said the visit helped demonstrate support for Taiwan amid tensions with China, Beijing called it a violation of U.S. commitments to One China policy and a step of encouragement for the pro-independence front of the island.
The communist leadership, on the other hand, considers Taiwan an integral part of the Chinese territory, to be reunified even by force, if necessary.
The Taiwanese military reported that its units on the main island of Kinmen and neighboring ones detected four small unmanned aircraft off the coast overnight on Friday.
The four drones were spotted flying over Kinmen, Lieyu and the islet of Beiding, according to the Kinmen Defense Command.
In response, the military fired warning rockets to repel the drones, which are believed to be operated by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA).
Kinmen, also known as Quemoy, is a group of islands administered by the Republic of China (official name of Taiwan), located just 10 kilometers east of the city of Xiamen in the Chinese province of Fujian.
North Korea criticized US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her recent visit to the Fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the borderline between North and South, calling it the "worst destroyer of international peace".
Pelosi, who visited Seoul earlier this week after a trip to Taiwan, is the highest U.S. authority to have visited the area between the two Koreas since then President Donald Trump met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un there in 2019. Prior to the visit, Pelosi discussed the "grave situation" and growing threat posed by the North's nuclear weapons program with his South Korean counterpart, National Assembly President Kim Jin-pyo.
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