China umzingelt Taiwan in überraschenden „Straf“-Militärübungen

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/23/china-military-drill-surprise-punishment-taiwan/

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  1. **From The Telegraph:**

    China launched surprise “punishment” drills encircling Taiwan, just days after the inauguration of a new Taiwanese president Beijing has denounced as a “separatist.”

    The two-day exercise began abruptly at 7.45am on Thursday and involved [aircraft and ships surrounding the island](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/27/taiwan-strait-china-freedom-of-navigation-us-navy/) to “test” their combat capabilities, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said.

    Experts said the drills simulated a[ full-scale attack on Taiwan](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/07/china-taiwan-invasion-war-usa-russia-ukraine-xi-jinping/) for the first time, rather than just a blockade.

    Launching the exercise, China’s military put out a series of posters touting what it called its “cross-strait lethality”. They featured images of missiles, jets and boats next to blood-stained text.

    “The weapon aimed at ‘Taiwan independence’ to kill ‘independence’ is already in place,” it declared.

    Taiwan condemned the manoeuvres, which come just three days after Lai Ching-te took office as the country’s new president – a man Beijing has long distrusted as a dangerous separatist and who Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, described as “disgraceful” earlier this week.

    The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which claims Taiwan as its own despite never ruling there, has refused to renounce seizing the island by force. It has also ignored Mr Lai’s repeated invitations to talks.

    In a defining speech on Monday to set the tone for his administration, [Mr Lai told China to cease military and political intimidation](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/20/taiwan-president-urges-china-cease-military-intimidation/) of his country and respect its democracy.

    The drills present an early test of the Lai presidency, although Taiwan has long been subjected to sustained Chinese military and economic coercion tactics in recent years.

    Taiwan’s defence ministry condemned the drills as “irrational provocation that has jeopardised regional peace and stability” and said it had put its forces on alert to protect its territory.

    “We seek no conflicts, but we will not shy away from one. We have the capacity, determination and confidence to safeguard our national security,” the ministry said in a statement that also urged citizens to “stand united.”

    The PLA said the drills serve as “strong punishment for the separatist acts of ‘Taiwan independence’ forces” and as a warning against “interference”, in reference to Western support for Taiwan.

    **Article Link:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/23/china-military-drill-surprise-punishment-taiwan/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/23/china-military-drill-surprise-punishment-taiwan/)

  2. I think the Chinese dictatorship needs to redefine the word ‘ surprise’ You fucking bullies

  3. Step 1: Recognise Taiwan as a state (its a recent fad to recognise states I’ve noticed, so why not Taiwan)

    Step 2: Sanction/Take action against China (whatever that may be) for infringing on a sovereign state

    Step 3: ????

    Step 4: Fallout 4

  4. China and Russia have been showing a lot more confidence recently. Putin flew to Beijing, [Xi] Jinping is visiting Hungary. Russia and China both reevaluating their borders again. They’re up to no good, and we are too busy struggling with ourselves to properly respond.

  5. It could happen after the U.S. election if Trump wins, so there is perceived weak point in U.S. foreign policy.

  6. This is what happens when you let Ukraine bleed for years. Sometimes when you give away Czechoslovakia, you lose Poland.

  8. This is so childish. China is run by middle schoolers.

  9. I hope Taiwan is working with Ukraine to learn all they can about drone warfare. Taiwan needs and I’m sure has excellent air defense. China needs to cross open water to invade Taiwan, and they can’t do that if their fleet is sunk by drones along the way.

    That said, I hope cooler minds prevail and China realizes how disastrous a war over Taiwan would be to everyone. Can we please just get back to competing economically and raising the standard of living for all of our citizens? Putin missed that memo.

  10. China and russia are buying time. They are influencing our election pushing for trump. If he wins, 100% china and russia will be more aggressive and you can expect taiwan invasion and russian invasion elsewhere.

  12. Good, hopefully this stupidity means the KMT loses any and all support for decades to come not just in the executive branch but now in Congress as well.

  13. Have we secretly been putting missile defense platforms in place there? If not , why not?

  14. I’m sure Taiwan wasn’t watching very closely, not evaluating tactics and plotting their defense.

  17. I’m so fucking sick of communist countries and their brutal ways.

  18. I wonder why communist China didn’t pursue the Chinese nationals that fled onto Taiwan when they were winning the mainland. Did the Nationalists shore up the island defenses in time to stop them so Communist China decided not to invade at that point? Why didn’t they (Taiwan) just declare independence then? While the PRC was at its weakest? It would have saved so much ambiguity today.

  19. Pretty easy to be a dick to others when nobody will do anything to counter you… our countries have become a bunch of BS on the world stage (all of them…)

  20. This is called posturing folks. They normalize these types of drills through repetition until one day it’s not a drill and we’re not prepared like we should be.

  21. You would think that China, while looking at Russia in the Ukarian Nation and how well the war is going; see it is fatal to China to invade Taiwan and think it will be easy! They invade Taiwan an the country will be bombed to dust and thousands will die for an island that once all is done will still be free!

  22. Should just give Taiwan 100-3000 nukes and subs. These terrorists respect nothing but power. Soon old Chinese maps show Antarctica was always Chinese…

  23. Just so we’re clear, in the event of an attempted invasion, most of China’s navy won’t make it across the strait let alone *surround* the island lol.

  25. Dont they always do this everytime theres a new head of state in Taiwan?

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