China said on Friday that military exercises underway around Taiwan They test the ability of their armed forces to take power of this island autonomous government.
The aerial exercises Two-day naval battles that began Thursday test “the joint ability to seize power, jointly attack and control key territories,” military spokesman Li Xi said, according to Chinese state media.
On Thursday morning, Chinese military ships and planes surrounded Taiwan in maneuvers described by a Beijing diplomatic spokesman as a “serious warning” to the “independence supporters” of this island, who will end up “bloodied.”
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The exercises, baptized “Joint Sword-2024A”arrive after the investiture on Monday Lai Ching-te as the new president of Taiwan, with a speech that Beijing denounced as “a confession of independence.”
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China and Taiwan They have been governed separately since the end of the civil war in 1949, but Beijing claims its sovereignty over the island and does not rule out the use of force to take control.
The maneuvers are part of a pressure campaign on the Taipei authorities, with almost daily incursions by planes and ships to the surroundings of the island and several large-scale military exercises in recent years.
The Chinese military said these latest exercises are “strong punishment for the separatist acts of the ‘Taiwan independence’ forces.”
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