China has big war games around Taiwan as the US promotes link with Japan to discourage “Chinese military aggression”

Taipei, Taiwan -The china military on Tuesday announced large -scale training in waters and airspace around Taiwan, which includes the battle group of air carriers, as it again warned democracy of self -healing islands against the search for formal independence. Common exercises are related to fleet, air and rocket forces, and are meant as “a heavy warning and a strong limit to Taiwan’s independence,” said this representative of the Eastern Theater of the People’s Liberation Army. Was not announced or prior statement of training.

China considers Taiwan as part of its territory to be placed under control by force if necessaryWhile most Taiwan supports their de facto independence and democratic status. Any conflict could bring to the United States, which preserves a number of alliances in the region and, in accordance with US law, to treat the threat to Taiwan as a “serious concern” issue.

The Taiwanese President’s Office said in its social media platform X report that “China’s crying military provocation not only threatens peace in the #Taiwan Strait, but also undermines security throughout the region, as evidenced by training near Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Korea, Philippines and SCS.

The SC refers to the South China Sea, the strategic waterway, which China claims almost overall.

There was also a Chinese fleet recently Drills near Australia and New Zealand For which it did not warn, forcing the last minute commercial flight.

The US focuses on “discouraging communist Chinese military aggression”

China’s latest exercises around Taiwan come days after US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsets visited Japan where he announced a to stimulate America’s close military partnership With the Asian people, directly opposite the Chinese “aggression” contradicts the region.

Heggeth, in Tokyo on Sunday, was called “an indispensable partner” to discourage China’s conviction and announced the upgrade of the US military command in Japan to a new “War Fighting Headquarters”. He stressed that the US and Japan should do more to strengthen their military capabilities as the region faces China’s growing confidence in countless territorial disputes in the region.

“Japan is our indispensable partner in deterring communist Chinese military aggression,” Heggeth said at the beginning of the talk with Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in Tokyo. “The US, as you know, is moving quickly to restore discouraging in the region and around the world.”

Heggist’s visit to Japan was a concern about how US involvement in the region could change in the politics of President Trump’s “America First”, said Japanese defense officials, when referring to an anonymity, referring to the protocol. Mr. Trump’s threatened to impose trade tariffs Japan is the main ally of the United States that raises more concerns.

Both sides agreed to accelerate plans to jointly develop and produce rockets, such as advanced medium-range air on air rockets or maam, and consider producing SM-6 missiles from air to air to help reduce ammunition shortages, Nakatani said. Ministers also agreed to speed up the process of maintaining US warships and war aircraft in Japan to strengthen and supplement the Japanese and US defense sectors.

There is more than 50,000 US troops in Japan.

Tokyo launched a Japanese Japanese Command, or JJOC, whose mission is to coordinate Japanese land, sea and air self -defense forces, in a significant operation to further strengthen opportunities to respond to possible cases and work with the United States better

Hegtset announced on Sunday of the improvement of his current command in the US, which forcing in Japan by placing a unified operative commander to act as a joint power headquarters to contact a Japanese colleague to serve as “the main headquarters of the war” to increase speed and the ability to perform their troops.

The Pentagon’s chief, with the reorganization of the US troops, called the step to better prepare for a possible conflict. Both America and Japan are working for peace, he said, but “we must be ready”.

China’s latest forces show around Taiwan

The Ministry of National Defense of Taiwan said Tuesday that it has tracked 71 Chinese aircraft and 21 warships in the air and waters that surround the island during Chinese exercises. It added that since Saturday it has tracked the movement of the Shandong aircraft carrier and that its group of carriers has entered the Taiwan Air Protection Identification Area-defined area, which is tracked by military personnel.

China regularly sends military assets in the area that China does not recognize, but Taiwanese officials have recently warned that China can launch an attack on military exercises under the guise of military exercises.

“I want to say that these activities are sufficiently reflected in the destruction of (China) regional peace and stability,” said Taiwan’s Defense Minister Wellington Koo.

Taiwan has set up a central reaction group to monitor the latest exercises, Koo said.

The drills come only two weeks after a large -scale exercise in mid -March, when Beijing sent a large number of drones and ships to the island.

The Chinese Taiwanese Affairs Bureau said the exercises are focused on To ching-theTaiwan’s strong president of independence.

“For Ching-Te stubbornly insist on the position of” Taiwan’s independence “, shamelessly marking the continental part as” foreign hostile power “and has put forward a so-called” 17-point strategy … Stiring an anti-Chinese sentiment, “said the Chinese Taiwanese Affairs Bureau, contrary to it.

In the middle of March, Taiwan to set a 17 -point strategy aimed at achieving Taiwan’s national security. Points include spy cases to be developed by military courts, and making immigration rules stricter to Chinese citizens applying for permanent residency.

To win and action, Chinese leaders XI Jinping has been particularly angry, whose previous intimidation attempts have little influenced by Taiwanese society. Those who are often timely in response to the expressions of Taiwan’s independence, including the then US home leader Nancy Pelosi.

New Chinese propaganda

The Chinese Pla also released a series of videos to release their military exercise, including one in which they portray as a green parasite that “poisoning” the island, hatching smaller parasites. The video shows the head on the onion of the green worm body, and the chopsticks take him and fry over the flame placed above Taiwan.

Beijing sends military aircraft and fleet ships to the island everyday, trying to wear Taiwan’s protection and morals, although the vast majority of the islands are rejecting its demand for sovereignty over Taiwan. In recent years it’s enhanced the scope and scale of these exercisesFrom a small number of individual fighters and monitoring aircraft to send to airplanes, drones and ship groups.

“The Pla organized sea and air forces to practice items such as sea and land strikes, focusing on troops’ ability to test exact strikes on some key Taiwan authorities from a number of directions,” said Zhang Chi, a professor at the National Defense University of China.

Taiwan and China split during the Civil War 76 years ago, but the tension has increased since 2016, when China stopped almost all contacts with Taipei.