Taiwan sent naval, land and air force on Wednesday after China launched a live-Fire training zone on just 40 nautical miles off the coast of Taiwan.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense Says that it only became aware of the exercise when local Taiwanese ships were warned to stay out of the area after the exercises had started. The exercises are centered off the coast of the port city of Kaohsiung in Taiwan. Taiwanese officials say that China “flagrant has violated international standards” by unilaterally designating the drill zone.
“This step is not only a high risk for the navigation safety of international flights and ships at sea, but is also a blatant provocation for regional safety and stability,” the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
As part of the exercise, Taiwan says that it has discovered 32 Chinese military planes with joint exercises with warships. Chinese officials have not recognized Taiwan’s complaints so far.
Taiwan sent naval ships and air and ground troops to check China’s live-Fire exercises this week. (Walid Berrazeg/AFP via Getty images)
The Taiwan exercises are just the newest example of Chinese aggression this month. The army of the country has also launched live-Fire exercises off the coast of Vietnam, as well as between New Zealand and Australia, so that commercial flights between the two countries are diverted.
Wednesday’s exercise came only a few days after the fourth leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Wang Huning, called for larger “reunification” efforts. China has long maintained that Taiwan is a rebel area of Beijing.
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China has to “understand the right to dominate and take the initiative in cross-trait relationships, and unshakable pushing the cause of reunification of the mother country ahead,” Huning said, according to a translation by Chinese state media.
Wang Huning, the 4th ranking of the Chinese Communist Party, called for more reunification attempts with Taiwan this week. (Photo by Rao Aimin/Xinhua via Getty images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping has repeatedly said in recent years that he is willing to take over Taiwan by violence.
China’s exercises come a day after Taiwan’s Coast Guard (CGA) The Chinese crew detained From a ship registered by Togolese that is suspected of cutting a submarine fiber optic cable that connects the islands of Taiwan and Penghu on Tuesday.
The CGA says that the ship, the Hong Tai 168, was around 925 meters from the cable on 22 February at about 925 meters on 22 February. The ship leaves the area, Taiwan’s media said that is owned.
Civilian civil servants received confirmation that the submarine cable from Taiwan-Penghu no. 3 was cut on Tuesday at 3 o’clock and they started the attempts to hold the Chinese crew of the ship. All eight crew members were Chinese nationals, According to the coast guard.
Two Taiwan Coast Guard Personnel Administration A TOGO flag a cargo ship to carry out inspection, because the cargo ship is suspected of damaging a submarine cable that connects Taiwan Island and Penghu Island, in Waters Off Penghu, Taiwan, on 25 February 2025. (Taiwan Coast Guard / Handout / Anadolu via Getty images)
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Taiwan split from mainland China in 1949, when pro-democratic troops fled to the island after losing a civil war to the Chinese communist party of Mao Zedong.
