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China Conducts Large-Scale Military Drills Around Taiwan Without End Date
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4/1/2025
Taiwan’s military is on alert as China carries out exercises in the region. Beijing says the drills are meant to punish what it calls “separatist forces” as it once again practices how to blockade Taiwan.
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Taiwan's military is on alert as China carries out military exercises in the region.
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We go live now to our defense reporter Haimei Ocon in our newsroom.
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Haimei, what do we know so far?
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So China's Eastern Theater Command said that starting April 1st it'd be conducting
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large-scale military exercises around Taiwan with no end dates. Now China says that the
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all branches of the military have been deployed to quote
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approach Taiwan Island from multiple directions. Now the drills are supposed to practice air and
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sea patrols as well as practice how to blockade key sea routes around Taiwan to test China's
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combat capabilities. Now Taiwan's military has confirmed that one of China's aircraft carriers
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the Shandong as well as 19 other warships are operating in the region and already we're seeing
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images released by Taiwan's defense ministry of the navy here shadowing Chinese warships that
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are sailing just outside of Taiwan's maritime border. Now Taiwan's presidential office and the
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defense ministry have called out China saying that once again these actions are extremely
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provocative and that they're damaging stability in the region.
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Now we do know that there is a large concentration of Chinese navy ships operating in waters around the
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southeastern part of Taiwan and China's coast guard is now slowly making its way trying to
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surround the main island of Taiwan. Now the military here has set up a response center to
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manage and oversee that activity but other than that that's all the activity that the
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defense ministry has reported so far. Well Jaime do we know why China is conducting these exercises?
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Yeah actually we do so China's Taiwan affairs office made a statement saying that these drills
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are meant to punish what Beijing is calling separatist forces and they're mentioning
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President Lai Ching-da's recent speech where he released 17 strategies to counter Chinese
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infiltration espionage and psychological warfare and they're also calling President Lai Ching-da
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a parasite. Chinese social media has released some videos depicting the president as a cartoon
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bug so this is a very clear reaction to that speech but something that a lot of observers
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are a little more concerned about is number one the lack of a name for the exercise and number two
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the lack of an end date. China's military has already come out and said that they don't need
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to name all of these exercises because this is a new normal and when it comes to the dates sources
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have told me that this is textbook gray zone warfare from China and trying to wear down and
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put pressure on Taiwan's military and also be very unclear about what its intentions are in the region.
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