A day after China announced further military drills and 39 Chinese air force planes and 13 navy ships were detected in and around the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan begins its own exercises to test combat readiness.
China has used military drills it launched in protest against US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit as a game plan to prepare for an invasion of Taiwan, the island's Foreign Minister says.
It comes in response to ongoing Chinese exercises that have included launching missiles into waters off the island of 23 million people.He said Taiwan would not be intimidated even as the drills continued with China often breaching the unofficial median line down the Taiwan Strait. "It is conducting large-scale military exercises and missile launches, as well as cyberattacks, disinformation, and economic coercion, in an attempt to weaken public morale in Taiwan.
"After the drills conclude, China may try to routinise its action in an attempt to wreck the long-term status quo across the Taiwan Strait."
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