China's three-day 'Joint Sword' military exercise around Taiwan concluded on Monday.
calls Tsai a separatist and proponent of"Taiwan independence" over her desire to indefinitely extend the long-standing status quo across the Taiwan Strait, and for repeatedly rejecting Beijing's calls for a political union between the two sides. In a national address on Tuesday, Tsai said the Chinese government's reaction"is not the responsible attitude of a regional power.
This image released by the Taiwanese defense ministry shows the crew of the Taiwan navy’s Cheng Kung-class frigate ROCS Chang Chien monitoring the Chinese navy’s Type 054 frigate Ma’anshan on April 8, 2023, during China’s three-day military drills around Taiwan.Dang's satellite pictures, which were captured by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 Earth observation satellites, showed at least 13 Taiwanese and Chinese ships jostling for positions at 10:41 a.m.
I added a layer of Taiwan's contiguous zone to the map in order to gain a better understanding of the situation in the waters surrounding Taiwan on April 10th. There are at least 5 encounters between vessels from both sides at the borders of the contiguous zone.
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