The Eastern Theater announced the launch of joint exercises and training! High attention in the island: "military exercises around the island appear faster than expected"

Transferred from: Global Network

Lieutenant Colonel Li Xi, spokesman of the Eastern Theater of Operations, said that from May 23 to 24, the Eastern Theater of the Chinese People's Liberation Army organized troops from the army, navy, air force, rocket corps and other forces in the theater of operations to carry out the "Joint Sword 2024A" exercise around Weitai Island. This news soon attracted the attention of some local media and forwarded the report.

The eastern theater released the map of the "United Sword 2024A" exercise area.

Taiwan's United Daily reported on the 23rd that the focus of this exercise was to exercise joint air and sea combat readiness patrol, joint seizure of comprehensive battlefield control, joint precision targeting of key targets and other subjects. The warships and aircraft arrived at the island's periphery for battle patrol, and the island chain was integrated inside and outside, so as to test the joint combat effectiveness of the theater forces. The report also quoted Lieutenant Colonel Li Xi as saying that this was also a strong punishment for the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces' efforts to seek "independence" and a serious warning of interference and provocation by external forces.

In addition, the report mentioned that from 7:45 on the 23rd, the eastern theater of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was located in the Taiwan Strait, and the northern, southern and eastern parts of Taiwan Island, as well as around Jinmen Island, Mazu Island, Wuqiu Island and Dongyin Island, carried out joint exercises and training.

Taiwan's Zhongshi News Network believes that the mainland exercise is a response to the "5 · 20" speech of Lai Qingde, leader of the Democratic Progressive Party authorities. According to the report, according to the map of the exercise area released by the mainland, it can be seen that the area is larger and "closer to Taiwan" than that of Pelosi, the former US Speaker of the House of Representatives, when he went to Taiwan and when the round Taiwan exercise was held in April 2023. As can be seen from the figure, the exercise was divided into 8 areas, surrounding Taiwan Island and the outer islands.

Zhongshi News Network said that Wang Shangzhi, a senior media person in the island, was on the social platform Facebook The article said that "military exercises around the island appear faster than expected". In his view, it seems that the mainland is not just a "warning", but that cross-strait relations have entered a new state and stage since then.

Taiwan's defense department expressed "regret" on the 23rd for the "United Sword 2024A" exercise around the mainland's Bitai Island. However, the rhetoric of Taiwan's defense department also caused criticism from some netizens in the island. Some people left messages in the Taiwan media comment area saying, "Lai Qingde insists on bringing Taiwan closer to the brink of war".

Some people said, "Look at the map, how small Taiwan is, we have to play big mouth".

Another netizen said, "I have no problem with the 'Taiwan independence', so let's go around.".