Four-day aviation secondary schools were opened yesterday. Chinain retaliation for her visit Nancy Pelosi in Taiwan. The six maritime exclusion zones promised by Beijing for the exercise could provide a valuable opportunity for Chinese army for a “dress rehearsal” before the invasion of the island.

The zones were chosen for their ability to exclude potential Western interference. In a recent speech, Chinese Major General Meng Xiangping explained that one of the zones covers the narrowest part taiwan strait, and the rest can be used to blockade a major port and strike at the three most important military airports of the island country. “The Kaohsiung Zone creates the right conditions for a successful invasion. I must emphasize that although these are exercises, they can turn into real battles at any moment, ”said Lieutenant General Meng.

OUR Chinese President Xi Jinping said he hoped to reunite Taiwan with China peacefully. However, like his predecessor, Xi has not ruled out the use of force, while senior Chinese military officials say an invasion is becoming more likely, albeit risky. “China intends to withdraw into territorial waters. Beijing does not consider Taiwan its own territorial waters, as it is another province of China. Thus, he cannot accept that Taipei has 12 miles of territorial waters,” says the Harvard analyst.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping said he hopes to reunite Taiwan with China peacefully, but does not rule out the use of force.

“The tendency of foreign powers to use Taiwan to limit China’s influence is well known. The Beijing government is determined to prevent this from happening and has taken unprecedented military measures to prevent it,” said Wu Yongping, a professor at Peking Sinoa University. One of the zones designated by China for secondary schools is located off the east coast of Taiwan, in the part of the island furthest from mainland China. In previous crises between the two countries, Beijing did not reserve maritime zones that far from the Taiwan Strait. “This is a conscious signal that the Chinese military has stepped up its capabilities,” says US analyst Brian Hart.

How close to Taiwan the Chinese troops participating in the exercises will be is still unknown. The Chinese military may use the opportunity to test the reaction time of Taiwan’s coastal defenses, for example by shelling Taiwan’s territorial waters. On the Taiwanese island of Kemoy, just six nautical miles off the coast of China, flights of unidentified objects have been recorded since Wednesday night. “We haven’t detected any aggressive activity from the Chinese, but their ships are coming very close to our territorial waters,” a senior Taiwanese coast guard officer said yesterday.

They are afraid of the crisis

After decades of tension and military crises in relations with China, a significant part of the population of the island nation has ceased to perceive Beijing’s threats. But even if China does not act defiantly during high school, experts estimate that the presence of significant naval and air forces around Taiwan could lead to an acute incident and a large-scale crisis.

The US Naval Academy Records Service said on Monday that a naval task force commanded by the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was in the Philippine Sea east of Taiwan, and that the USS Tripoli was in the area. “In the past, the People’s Liberation Army of China had military schools far from the coast of Taiwan. Now they have approached dangerously close, ”says a retired military man.

On a military basis

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For the first time since the 1995-1996 crisis, China yesterday launched 11 long-range ballistic missiles off Taiwan’s northeast and northwest coasts. On the first day of the four-day exercise, which began the day after Nancy Pelosi’s much-lauded visit, China deployed more than 100 fighter jets and ten warships, while Japan protested that five Chinese missiles had landed in its own exclusive economic zone. By noon, Chinese and Taiwanese warships were close in the straits, and the island’s armed forces activated their air defense systems after launching the first Chinese missile. “We are preparing for war without seeking war,” Taiwan’s defense ministry said. For its part, the PRC Ministry of Defense, through its representative, emphasized that “synergy and provocations from the United States and Taiwan will only push the latter into the abyss of destruction, bringing suffering to our Taiwanese compatriots.”