The Eastern theater of the Chinese People's Liberation Army announced that the "United Elite-20124A" military exercise was held in the waters around Taiwan from May 23 to 24.
The PLA stated that its eastern theater starts at 7:45 on May 23, Beijing time, and organizes the troops of land, sea, air, and rockets in Taiwan and the surrounding seas of the Golden Horse.-2024A "military exercise.The exercise focuses on the patrols of the sea and air combat reserve, the battlefield control, and the important goals of the battlefield.Li Yan, a spokesman for the Eastern theater of the PLA, said that the exercise was a "powerful punishment" of "Taiwan independence division forces" and a serious warning of "interference and provocation of external forces."
Unlike previous exercises, official information was released after the military exercise began.
The Ministry of National Defense of Taiwan stated that it would pay close attention to the development of the situation and dispatched troops in a timely manner to respond to the exercise. Taiwan Laifu issued a statement saying that the mainland "threatened Taiwan's democratic freedom and regional peace and stability" with unilateral military provocations.
Chen Binhua, a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of China, said when he took office in Taiwan President Lai Qingde this week that Lai Qingde expressed his "Taiwan independence" position in his inauguration.The danger of "meeting each other".
Therefore, the outside world believes that this exercise is a response to the Lai Qingde's new government's inauguration, which is intimidated.
The exercise area released by the Chinese People's Liberation Army shows that the exercise will surround the main island of Taiwan and will also cover some Taiwanese islands near mainland China for the first time.Some analysts pointed out that this military exercise was a complete attack on Taiwan.
Zhong Zhidong Zhong Zhidong, "Institute of Defense Safety Tank" in the Taiwan Ministry of Defense Security Tank, Zhong ZhidongThe doctor told that the military exercise did not surprise the outside world.He told reporters that, in fact, as early as a few days ago, the mainland had repeatedly expressed severe criticism against the Lai Qingde government. When Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi talked to Russian foreign ministers in the SCC Foreign Minister.It is "first -time attack and then scary." He believes that this is a consistent strategy. From the 1996 sea missile crisis to Nancy Pelosi (Pelosi), the tranquility after visiting Taiwan is all based on this.
Zhuang Jiaying, an associate professor of the Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore, explained to the BBC that the summer season is usually the peak of military exercises. This exercise or the matters that should be noted is the size of the exercise and can cause the psychological pressure of Taiwan.Furthermore, the PLA exercise is close to the Japanese and Philippine military bases around Taiwan, and whether it will cut off the influence of Taiwan's outer islands and the island's network and military communication.
In this exercise, the Eastern theater of the PLA also released a number of posters on the title of "Cross -Sea Kill". In traditional Chinese, there are publicity slogans such as "Kami Artifacts", "Login Men", "Dongfeng Express" and other promotional slogans.EssenceOver the past year, China has repeatedly used fighter jets and naval ships to surround Taiwan.In August 2022, after visiting Taiwan in the US House of Representatives Perlis, China carried out large -scale military drills on Taiwan.
Based on this, Stephen Robert Nagy, a professor at the Political and International Research Institute of Japan International Christian University, emphasized to the BBC that although Taiwanese generally seem to be "used" to the PLA exercises, and the outside world is not surprising, butThe Beijing military exercise also passed the message to the Taiwanese and the Lai government, saying that the PLA could not tolerate Taiwan independence, and took military threats as a means.The same release of clear signals to Taiwan's allies, especially the United States and Japan, expressed the red line of the PLA strongly.
Dr. Zhong Zhidong also said that the section of the Jianjian military exercise was set in the southeast of Taiwan, and the new military base in the Philippines and the United States was obviously issued to Washington and Manila.
Cross -Strait response
The military exercise also caused a fierce response from the people on both sides of the strait.Taiwanese artists Hou Peizen and Ouyang Nana reposted "Taiwan will return to the arms of the motherland" on her personal Weibo public account yesterday, and opened the scolding of netizens on both sides of the strait.
The public account of the PLA -related social media has attracted a large number of messages. Many Chinese netizens praised the military exercises to effectively intimidate Taipei.A Chinese netizen left a message saying that the PLA announced that the military exercise weapon was "to let them (Taiwan independence) understand who died."
Many netizens in Taiwan said in social media that the continued rise of Taiwan stocks today shows that the Taiwan market and the people have not been shocked by the Communist Army, and the effect of "the effect of the Communist Military exercise has decreased."
Professor Zhong Zhidong, a strategic scholar in Taiwan, the Central South China Sea on the day of President Lai Lai set up the government as the "Taiwan independence regime".The pressure on the size, "I will not give the Lai Qingde government a good life."