China starts military drills around Taiwan, with planes and ships encircling the island.
Chinese Military launches Operation Joint Sword 2024B, launching warships and fighter jets to the north, south, east, and west of Taiwan! The island is surrounded and cut off!! Taiwan… pic.twitter.com/HJ80Or8iMY
— Boar News (@PhamDuyHien9) October 14, 2024
The US is stirring all this trouble in Taiwan, telling these people to make all these outrageous statements about being an “independent country.” The US has signed a pact agreeing that Taiwan is a part of China.
No one believes it is an independent country. There is no reason to claim that, because they already have independence, and China is not concerned about taking that away.
AP:
China held large-scale military exercises surrounding Taiwan and its outlying islands Monday in what it called a warning against Taiwan independence.
China’s Defense Ministry said the drills were a response to Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te’s refusal to concede to Beijing’s demands that Taiwan acknowledge itself as a part of the People’s Republic of China under the rule of the Communist Party.
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The PLA’s Eastern Theater Command spokesperson Navy Senior Captain Li Xi said the navy, army air force, missile corps were all mobilized for the drills. “This is a major warning to those who back Taiwan independence and a signifier of our determination to safeguard our national sovereignty,” Li said in a statement on the service’s public media channel.
There is no point to this. At all.
What are they trying to get out of it? What is the benefit to the Taiwanese people of doing this?
It’s just more bullshit from America, trying to start conflict all over the world.
‘On this land, democracy and freedom are growing and thriving. The People’s Republic of China has no right to represent Taiwan,’ Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te said in his keynote national day speech, striking both a firm and a conciliatory tone https://t.co/3dDsjEVNAd pic.twitter.com/aWsy09075p
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 10, 2024