Taiwan has objected to what it says were unannounced Chinese live-fire naval exercises in busy waters near its south-western coast, in a further sign of disruption caused by the People’s Liberation Army’s rapidly expanding operations.
Taiwan’s defence ministry said the PLA on Wednesday notified commercial ships and aircraft through ad hoc radio warnings of “shooting drills” in a training area 40 nautical miles off the municipality of Kaohsiung and neighbouring Pingtung County.
Such a move in an international shipping lane “not only poses grave danger to international aviation and the navigation of ships at sea, but presents an open provocation to regional security and stability”, the ministry said.
China’s Maritime Safety Administration did not issue a navigational warning for Wednesday’s drills, as it tends to ahead of exercises in waters or airspace claimed by China, nor were there notifications for international air traffic.
The drills come less than a week after a PLA Navy flotilla conducted live-fire drills off the east coast of Australia. China also did not provide direct advance notice to Canberra of those drills, which only became known through radio warnings to pilots.
The area demarcated for Wednesday’s shooting drills off Taiwan is in international waters, where militaries are free to conduct exercises.
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China seems like it’s testing the US response right now with their live fire drills. They see that the fed is in disarray and are pushing boundaries. They are going to continue to use tiktok and info warfare to undermine the US as well. Frankly anyone still using that app is willingly being fed propaganda and knows it.
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Taiwan has objected to what it says were unannounced Chinese live-fire naval exercises in busy waters near its south-western coast, in a further sign of disruption caused by the People’s Liberation Army’s rapidly expanding operations.
Taiwan’s defence ministry said the PLA on Wednesday notified commercial ships and aircraft through ad hoc radio warnings of “shooting drills” in a training area 40 nautical miles off the municipality of Kaohsiung and neighbouring Pingtung County.
Such a move in an international shipping lane “not only poses grave danger to international aviation and the navigation of ships at sea, but presents an open provocation to regional security and stability”, the ministry said.
China’s Maritime Safety Administration did not issue a navigational warning for Wednesday’s drills, as it tends to ahead of exercises in waters or airspace claimed by China, nor were there notifications for international air traffic.
The drills come less than a week after a PLA Navy flotilla conducted live-fire drills off the east coast of Australia. China also did not provide direct advance notice to Canberra of those drills, which only became known through radio warnings to pilots.
The area demarcated for Wednesday’s shooting drills off Taiwan is in international waters, where militaries are free to conduct exercises.
!ping Taiwan
China seems like it’s testing the US response right now with their live fire drills. They see that the fed is in disarray and are pushing boundaries. They are going to continue to use tiktok and info warfare to undermine the US as well. Frankly anyone still using that app is willingly being fed propaganda and knows it.