The Taiwan independence media “Liberty Times” on the island claimed that the PLA military planes have continued to increase “harassment” against Taiwan in recent years. ), the PLA military aircraft entered the airspace of Southwest Taiwan more than 250 sorties, an increase of more than 120 sorties over the same period last year.
In the face of the situation in the Taiwan Strait, the contingency measures proposed by the Taiwan defense department include, “intensive intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, strengthening crisis response capabilities, accelerating military preparation and improving combat capabilities, improving combat readiness training of troops, countering enemy cognitive operations, and continuous deepening. The Taiwan military will “continuously improve its asymmetric combat capabilities, improve various combat readiness and responses based on the threat of enemy situations, strengthen the will of the whole people to resist the enemy, and establish a deterrent force to ensure national security.” “Thinking about it.
Regarding the PLA’s military operations around the Taiwan Strait, Colonel Tan Kefei, deputy director of the Information Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense and spokesperson of the Ministry of National Defense, previously stated that since 2021, the PLA has regularly organized bombers, reconnaissance planes, fighter planes, etc. The multi-army forces have organized joint combat readiness patrols around Taiwan Island, and regularly organize joint naval assaults, joint land strikes, and joint air defense operations in the sea and airspace near Taiwan Island. The number will only be more, not less, and the goal is very clear, that is, to take decisive action to counteract the frequent collusion of forces inside and outside the island and to challenge the one-China principle, resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and earnestly safeguard the common well-being of compatriots on both sides of the strait and the Taiwan Strait. Peace and stability.
Tan Kefei said that the root cause of the current escalation of tension in the Taiwan Strait lies in the provocation of “independence” by the DPP authorities and the “Taiwan independence” separatist forces and the attempt by external forces to “use Taiwan to control China”. It is the duty of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army to defend national sovereignty and security and curb “Taiwan independence” separatist acts.