The visit of the Chairman of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi to Taipei, Taiwan, on August 2 last apparently had a long tail. To showcase its military muscle in the region, Beijing has announced that it will hold a massive military exercise that includes live fire drills in six zones around Taiwan. Of course, military drills that sound like provocations are common, but this time it's the biggest one.
Quoted from taiwannews.com.tw (3/8/2022), the Chinese government has announced military exercises with live fire in six areas around Taiwan, from August 4-7, 2022. The Chinese military has marked large swaths of water off the coast of Taiwan.
The coast of Taiwan, including areas to the northwest, north, northeast, east, southwest, and southeast of Taiwan. Zones in the north, northeast and southwest of the country appear very close to Taiwan's territorial waters.
The Chinese military said that "for security reasons" unlicensed ships and planes were barred from entering the area during the specified date. Compared to the live-fire zones during the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis from 1995-1996, the area that China's war games are currently training in appears to be closer to Formosa Island.
In response, Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense (MND) deplored the exercise as an attempt to "threat important ports and urban areas, and unilaterally undermine regional and stability. Taiwan's Ministry of Defense stressed that the Chinese Communist Party's acts of “military intimidation” were designed to instill fear in the minds of Taiwanese.
Taipei said it used joint intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance to maintain full situational awareness of the dynamics on both land and sea in the Taiwan Strait and stressed that it had "the determination, capability and confidence" to ensure national security.
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The following are the coordinates of the location where the exercise will be held:
- 25°15′26″N 120°29′20″E, 24°50′30″N 120°05′45″E, 25°04′32″N 119°51′22″E, 25°28′12 N 120°14′30″E
- 26°07′00″N 121°57′00″E, 25°30′00″N 121°57′00″E, 25°30′00″N 121°28′00″E, 26°07′00 LU 121°28′00″BT
- 25°34′00″N 122°50′00″E, 25°03′00″N 122°50′00″E, 25°03′00″N 122°11′00″E, 25°34′00 LU 122°11′00″BT
- 22°56′00″N 122°40′00″E, 23°38′00″N 122°51′00″E, 23°38′00″N 123°23′00″E, 22°56′00 LU 123°09′00″E
- 21°14′00″N 121°33′00″E, 21°33′00″N 121°18′00″E, 21°07′00″N 120°43′00″E, 20°48′00 N 120°59′00″E
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