At 7:45 on May 23, the Eastern Theater began the "Joint Sword 2024A" exercise. The spokesman of the war zone stressed that this is a strong punishment for the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces seeking "independence", and a serious warning of interference and provocation by external forces.
The distinctive feature of this exercise is that the PLA encircles on all sides and attacks on all sides. There is no feint, but the main attack. In the east, south, west and north of Taiwan Island, there are also Jinmen Island, Mazu Island, Wuqiu Island and Dongyin Island located on the coast of Fujian, which are also within the scope of the PLA's simultaneous attack.
The drill code is "United Sword - 2024A". If there is an "A", there will be a "B". Next, there will be "United Sword - 2024B" drill, and even "United Sword - 2024C" drill.
"United Sword" is the code name of the exercise held by the PLA on the occasion of Tsai Ing wen's visit to the United States in 2023. The code name will continue to be used in 2024, which shows a very important message: the PLA's military action plan to attack Taiwan is basically complete. What was the plan of last year? You can use it again this year.
This also shows that, militarily, the PLA is ready to attack Taiwan!
As soon as the news of the drill was released, the island shook and the world watched. For example, a website in Japan broadcast the news of the exercise in the eastern war zone at around 9:00 pm. By 12:00 pm, in just over three hours, Japanese netizens had left more than 1000 messages.
When the Japanese media broadcast, they all named Lai Qingde one after another, saying that this PLA exercise around the Taiwan Strait was a warning and punishment to the newly appointed Lai Qingde.
So, how did Lai Qingde respond?
Today, although Lai Qingde's office did not say anything about it, it reiterated the "two countries theory" again through Taiwan's defense department. Major General Wu Yisheng, the defense department of Lai Qingde authorities, falsely claimed that the PLA's actions had "violated the Charter of the United Nations", and said that "no country should threaten to infringe upon the territorial sovereignty of another country by force".
Not only that, Lai Qingde also forcefully responded to the military exercises in the eastern war zone with practical actions, fully exposing his stubborn nature of dark green and extremely toxic.
On the afternoon of the 23rd, Lai Qingde led Gu Lixiong, the head of Taiwan's defense department, Wu Zhaoxie, the Secretary General of Taiwan's National Security Council, Liu Dejin, the Deputy Secretary General, Tang Hua, the commander of Taiwan's navy, and others to inspect the 66th Brigade of Taiwan's Marine Corps, encouraging Taiwan's officers and soldiers to fight to the end.
The 66th Brigade is the main force of the Taiwan Navy and the only field force deployed in Taipei City. During the inspection, Lai Qingde occasionally pretended to be a smiling face. Most of the time, he was gloomy, blue and worried.
Taiwan's defense department held an interim press conference this afternoon. Sun Fang, the spokesman, said that Taiwan's military had found 15 PLA ships, 50 J-16, Su-30 and other warplanes, and 16 mainland coast guard ships.
The reporter asked whether the PLA would "change from practice to war" in this military exercise? In response, Major General Huang Wenqi, Assistant Deputy Chief of the Information Office of Taiwan's Defense Department, said that the possibility of the Communist Army changing from performance to war has always been regarded as an important observation indicator by the national army. This meeting assessed and analyzed the process, content, deployed forces and scope of activities of the military exercises, and there were corresponding measures to respond to the possible actions of the PLA.
The reaction from all walks of life in the island was different. The Democratic Progressive Party could not spit ivory out of its mouth, so it would not report it.
Zhu Lilun, Chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang, called on the mainland to exercise restraint, avoid escalation and cherish the achievements of peaceful development across the Taiwan Straits.
The Taiwan People's Party today expressed "condemnation" of the PLA military exercises.
Wang Shangzhi, a senior media person in Taiwan, said that the PLA's island encirclement exercise was faster than expected. It was almost decided by the decision of 520 on the same day. Next, there will be no suspense about ECFA cutoff. Beijing does not seem to be a warning, and cross-strait relations have entered a new state and stage since then. The cross-strait war is coming to a frontline; Both sides are in danger of war, which has become the latest normal.
Stephen Sklenka, deputy commander of the US Indo Pacific Command, said today that this exercise must be taken seriously and that the PLA's attack on Taiwan is not inevitable.
Wen Ti Sung, a researcher in Taipei of the Atlantic Council, a think-tank in Washington and an Australian scholar, wrote in X that this military exercise is like a prelude to more and larger military exercises, which is a signal for China to shape the international narrative. The real punishment against Taiwan may not yet come.
In short, since Lai Qingde can't understand people, he should use weapons to talk.
"Taiwan independence" is a dead end.
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