{"id":662433,"date":"2025-12-30T12:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662433\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:22:11","slug":"china-fires-rockets-into-waters-off-taiwan-in-second-day-of-military-drills-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662433\/","title":{"rendered":"China fires rockets into waters off Taiwan in second day of military drills | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

China has fired rockets into the waters off Taiwan on a second day of large-scale war games around the island aimed at rehearsing a blockade.<\/p>\n

The country’s military deployed new amphibious assault ships alongside bomber aircraft and warships in what Beijing called a “stern warning” against separatist and “external interference” forces.<\/p>\n

China<\/strong><\/a> has long insisted Taiwan<\/strong><\/a> – which has been ruled separately from China since 1949 following the civil war that brought the Communist Party to power in the mainland – is part of its sovereign territory and has expressed anger at US weapons sales to the self-ruled island.<\/p>\n

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\n China’s military drills near Taiwan\n <\/p>\n

Its military is carrying out 10 hours of live-firing drills at five locations surrounding Taiwan.<\/p>\n

The Eastern Theatre Command of China’s People’s Liberation Army released a video of what appeared to be a mobile PCH-191 rocket launcher firing into the sea from an unspecified location in China and said rockets had been fired into waters north and south of Taiwan.<\/p>\n

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\n A Taiwan Coast Guard vessel travels near a China Coast Guard vessel. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n

Naval and air force units also simulated strikes on maritime and aerial targets as well as anti-submarine operations to the island’s north and south, the Chinese military said.<\/p>\n

The drills, named “Justice Mission 2025”, are the largest by area and closest yet to Taiwan.<\/p>\n

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\n A big screen during shows news on China’s military drills around Taiwan, in Beijing. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n

The exercises, which included the use of destroyers, frigates, fighters and bombers, began<\/strong><\/a> 11 days after the US announced a record $11.1bn (around \u00a38.2bn) arms package to Taiwan.<\/p>\n

A senior Taiwan intelligence official said Beijing looks to be using the war games to practise striking land-based targets such as the US-made HIMARS rocket system – a highly mobile artillery system with a range of about 300 km (186 miles) that could hit coastal targets in southern China.<\/p>\n

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Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te said in a post on Facebook that frontline troops were primed to defend the island, but that Taipei did not seek to escalate the situation.<\/p>\n

The defence ministry said 130 Chinese military aircraft and 22 navy and coastguard vessels had been operating around the island in the 24 hours up to 6am local time.<\/p>\n

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The country’s Civil Aviation Authority said that although 11 of Taipei’s 14 flight routes were affected by the drills, no international flights had been cancelled.<\/p>\n

But routes to the offshore islands of Kinmen and Matsu near China’s coast are blocked, affecting around 6,000 passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has fired rockets into the waters off Taiwan on a second day of large-scale war games around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-662433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115808498396489469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}