Regular training The PLA claims that the exercise is not to seize the Dongsha Islands

(Hong Kong / Beijing Comprehensive News) According to sources from mainland Chinese military, the PLA's military exercises in the South China Sea are not to seize the Dongsha Islands controlled by Taiwan, but only part of the regular training plan.

On the 12th of this month, the common News Agency reported that sources reported that the mainland planned to conduct military exercises in the South China Sea in August and hold a large -scale landing exercise to simulate the Dongsha Islands.

However, the Hong Kong South China Morning Post reported that the mainland military people who did not want to be named revealed that only 200 Taiwanese soldiers were stationed in the Dongsha Islands, and the mainland sent an aircraft carrier battle group to occupy such a small island.Logining to the exercise is only part of the regular training plan of the mainland military.

Sources said that a battle group of the mainland navy will pass through the Dongsha Islands to reach the exercise location in the southeast of Taiwan.The PLA will test all aircraft, warships and weapons to measure their combat capabilities in tropical waters.However, it is unclear whether the aircraft carrier participating in the military exercise is Liaoning or Shandong.The Liaoning ship is currently the only carrier with its initial combat capabilities in the mainland. The Shandong ship is the first domestic aircraft carrier in the mainland. It was delivered to the mainland navy at the end of last year.

According to the analysis of the new captain of the Taiwan Navy, after the mainland developed eight artificial islands in the South China Sea, both Dongsha Island and Taiping Island both lost the importance of geographical strategy.The mainland has three 3000 -meter flight runways on the artificial island. Each can be used as a variety of military aircraft and civil aviation aircraft, and Taiwan has no fighters on Dongsha and Taiping Island.

Taiwan's military observers, Lo Yiyi, believes that landing exercises can be regarded as a preparation for attacking Taiwan. The PLA is more focused on establishing a combat system to cope with the conflict that may erupt in the South China Sea.Hong Kong military expert Song Zhongping believes that this military exercise aims to warn Taiwan President Tsai Ing -wen and the United States. The mainland has been fully prepared on the issue of Taiwan and the South China Sea.