Original title: Authorized to release | "United Sword - 2024A" exercise around Bitai Island in the eastern theater

Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, May 23 Senior Colonel Li Xi, spokesman of the Eastern Warfare Zone, said that from May 23 to 24, the PLA Eastern Warfare Zone organized troops from the army, navy, air force, rocket corps and other forces in the theater, and carried out the "Joint Sword 2024A" exercise around Weitai Island, focusing on joint air and sea combat readiness patrols, and jointly seizing the comprehensive control of the battlefield Joint precision targeting of key targets and other subjects, warships and aircraft approaching the island and patrolling around the island, and integrated linkage inside and outside the island chain to test the joint combat capability of the theater forces. This is also a strong punishment for the "Taiwan independence" secessionist forces seeking "independence" and a serious warning of interference and provocation by external forces.