"... Last Friday, President Joe Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year 2023, a spending bill that allows up to $2 billion worth of military loans to Taiwan over the next five years.
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China responds to US ‘provocation’
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" Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) staged military exercises near Taiwan on Sunday, its Eastern Theater Command said in a statement. Beijing has blamed the US and the self-governing island for the continued escalation in the region.
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The military “organized joint combat-readiness patrols and joint firepower strike drills in airspace and waters around Taiwan,” the command spokesman, Colonel Shi Yi, said in a brief statement, without specifying the exact location or the scale of the exercise.
The colonel called the drills “a resolute response to the escalating collusion and provocation by the United States and Taiwan,” adding that the PLA would take “all necessary measures” to defend China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Chinese officials did not reveal the nature of the alleged US “provocation,” but the drills took place just two days after President Joe Biden signed the 2023 US National Defense Authorization Act into law. America’s military budget for fiscal year 2023 authorizes $10 billion in security assistance and fast-tracked weapons procurement for Taiwan.
The Chinese Defense Ministry on Saturday blasted the bill as yet another move that “seriously jeopardizes the peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait” and increases the risk of a direct military conflict between Washington and Beijing.
Taiwan’s government has not commented on the development so far. Self-ruled since 1949, the island nation has never officially declared independence from Beijing. China views it as an inalienable part of its territory.
Tensions around Taiwan have been running high since the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the island in August. While formally following the One China policy and recognizing Beijing’s sovereignty over the island, Washington has actively supported Taipei.
Visits of senior US officials to Taiwan, as well as booming military cooperation between Taipei and Washington, have repeatedly led to objections from Beijing. On Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi accused the US of “stabbing China in the back” in a phone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and called on Washington to drop its policy of “unilateral bullying.”
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China urges U.S. to implement Bali consensus, stop using Taiwan to contain China
"China is strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposes the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 and has lodged solemn representations with the United States after U.S. President Joe Biden signed it into law, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Saturday in a press release.
Noting the Act contains a large number of negative provisions on China's Taiwan region, the spokesperson said those provisions seriously violate the one-China principle and the stipulations in the three China-U.S. Joint Communiques, send a gravely wrong signal to "Taiwan independence" separatist forces and severely affect peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits.
On the same day, Zhu Fenglian, the spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council also stated that the Act is a domestic law of the U.S., but it blatantly makes irresponsible remarks on the Taiwan question, including providing military financing and arms sales to Taiwan region. This seriously violates the one-China principle and the three China-U.S. Joint Communiques, Zhu said.
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"For some time now, some people in the U.S. have been making more wrong words and deeds on the Taiwan question. The Act, which provides $10 billion in military assistance and $2 billion in military loans to Taiwan within five years, and steps up arms sales to Taiwan, further demonstrates that there is a force in the U.S. that stands by Taiwan in its efforts to deter China and support the 'Taiwan independence' separatists by providing the region with military arms," Zhu said.
She added that the move is inciting confrontation across the Taiwan Straits, pushing the Taiwan Straits to the brink of war and putting the lives of the people in Taiwan in jeopardy.
Zhu deplored the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of Taiwan in her statement, saying the DPP stubbornly relies on the U.S. to fight against the Chinese mainland and seeks "Taiwan independence," even at the expense of the lives and welfare of the people on the island, and willingly acts as a pawn of external anti-China forces.
She warned DPP authorities that "Taiwan independence" will lead nowhere, and relying on the U.S. to seek independence is a dead end. No one should underestimate the strong resolve, firm will and strong ability of the Chinese people to safeguard the national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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You Wenze, the spokesperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress, also condemned the negative provisions regarding China in the Act on Saturday, stressing that there is only one China in the world and Taiwan is an inseparable part of the Chinese territory.
He noted that China is committed to the path of peaceful development, upholds the common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security outlook, and firmly adheres to a national defense policy that is defensive in nature. The Chinese people's right to a better life is inviolable, he added, urging the U.S. to abandon the zero-sum mentality of the Cold War and don't implement the negative China-related provisions in the relevant bills.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson also stated that Taiwan is China's Taiwan. No external interference in China's internal affairs will be tolerated, adding that the U.S. should stop using Taiwan to contain China, stop fudging, distorting and hollowing out the one-China principle, and stop moving even further down the wrong and dangerous path.
"We urge the U.S. to earnestly follow through on the important consensus reached by the two presidents in Bali, abandon the Cold War and zero-sum mentality and ideological prejudice, view China's development and China-U.S. relations in an objective and rational way, and refrain from implementing the negative China-related provisions in the Act," said the spokesperson.
The spokesperson also denounced the "China threat" narrative in the act, saying it blatantly interferes with China's internal affairs, and attacks and discredits the Communist Party of China (CPC), which is a serious political provocation against China.
Noting the leadership of the CPC is the choice of history and the Chinese people, the ministry stressed that the Chinese people are clear-eyed about the U.S.'s ill intention of suppressing and containing China's development and thwarting the Chinese nation's rejuvenation.
Any attempt to drive a wedge between the Chinese people and the CPC will never succeed, according to the statement." READ MORE
Beijing claims democratic, self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory, to be taken one day by force if necessary, and has ramped up military, diplomatic and economic pressure on the island.
Beijing has been incensed by US President Joe Biden's handling of Taiwan -- especially after he said Washington would defend it militarily.
China did not specify the number of aircraft mobilised for Sunday's exercises, nor the exact location of these manoeuvers.
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) "organised joint combat readiness patrol and joint fire strike drills in the sea and airspace around Taiwan Island," said Shi Yi, spokesman for the Eastern Theater Command.
"This is a firm response to the escalating collusion and provocations by the US and the Taiwanese authorities."
The PLA also published photos of a bomber, a warship and an aerial landscape taken from a plane's cockpit showing what it said was a mountain range in Taiwan.
The latter shot was meant to emphasise how close the aircraft got to the Taiwanese coast.
✓ China's Foreign Ministry had also expressed "strong opposition" on Saturday after a US defence bill authorised $10 billion in military aid and seeks to expedite arms sales to Taiwan.
Tensions peaked in August after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan, with the PLA staging huge military drills around the island in protest.
Beijing lashes out at any diplomatic action that might lend Taiwan legitimacy and has responded with growing anger to visits by Western officials and politicians."
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China deploys 71 warplanes to skies around Taiwan in chilling 'strike drill' - then blames US
China deploys 71 warplanes to skies around Taiwan in chilling 'strike drill' - then blames US for 'provocations' and 'collusion' with self-governing island
By Ruth Bashinsky For Dailymail.Com and Associated Press , updated
- The planes were deployed in the skies around Taiwan on Sunday
- Sixty fighter jets took part in the drills, including six Su-30 warplanes, China's most advanced
- This was one of the biggest incursions on Taiwanese airspace to date
- China blamed US for stoking tensions between Beijing and Taipei
- Taiwan is self-governing democracy, China wants to take control of it
China deployed 71 warplanes to skies around Taiwan in a chilling 'strike drill', then blamed the US for 'provocations' and 'collusion' with self-governing island - in one of the biggest daily incursions to date.
Sixty fighter jets took part in the drills, including six Su-30 warplanes, some of China's most advanced, Taipei's defense ministry said in a Twitter post on Monday.
The People's Liberation Army said it had conducted a 'strike drill' on Sunday in response to unspecified 'provocations' and 'collusion' between the United States and the self-ruled island.
Data from Taiwan's defense ministry showed those drills were one of the largest since they started releasing daily tallies.
Forty-seven of the sorties crossed into the island's air defense identification zone (ADIZ), the third-highest daily incursion on record, according to AFP's database. . .
Taiwan, a self-governing democracy, lives under constant threat of invasion by China, which claims the democratic island as part of its territory, to be taken one day.
In September, President Biden went on the record and said US forces would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion. The statement drew an angry response from China.
Biden said during a CBS 60 Minutes interview that US forces would defend Taiwan, 'if in fact, there was an unprecedented attack,' Reuters reported.
The President appeared to go beyond long-standing stated US policy on Taiwan. The US has stuck to a policy of 'strategic ambiguity' - not making clear on whether it would respond with their forces if there was an attack on Taiwan, the news outlet said.
Beijing has ramped up military, diplomatic and economic pressure on Taiwan under President Xi Jinping as relations have deteriorated.
One of the pressure tactics China has increasingly used is probing Taiwan's ADIZ with its warplanes.
So far this year, there have bee more than 1,700 such incursions compared with 969 in 2021 and 146 in 2020.
China did not specify the number of aircraft mobilized for Sunday's exercises, nor the exact location of these maneuvers.
Taiwan's
daily tally showed most of the incursions crossed the 'median line'
which runs down the Taiwan Strait that separates the two sides, while a
smaller number went through Taiwan's southwestern ADIZ. . ." READ MORE
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China sent 71 warplanes, 7 ships toward Taiwan in 24 hours: Taiwanese defence ministry
Taipei: China's military sent 71 planes and seven ships toward Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force directed at the island, Taiwan's defense ministry said Monday, after China expressed anger at Taiwan-related provisions in a US annual defense spending bill passed on Saturday.
China's military harassment of self-ruled Taiwan, which it claims is its own territory, has intensified in recent years, and the Communist Party's People's Liberation Army has sent planes or ships toward the island on a near-daily basis.
Between 6 am Sunday and 6 a.m. Monday, 47 of the Chinese planes crossed the median of the Taiwan Strait, an unofficial boundary once tacitly accepted by both sides, according to Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense.
Among the planes China sent towards Taiwan were 18 J-16 fighter jets, 11 J-1 fighters, 6 Su-30 fighters and drones.
Taiwan said it monitored the Chinese moves through its land-based missile systems, as well as on its own navy vessels.
"This is a firm response to the current US-Taiwan escalation and provocation," said Shi Yi, the spokesman for the PLA's Eastern Theater Command, in a statement on Sunday night. It announced that the PLA was holding joint combat patrols and joint strike drills in the waters around Taiwan.
Shi was referring to the US defense spending bill, which calls China a strategic challenge. With regard to the Indo-Pacific region, the legislation authorizes increased security cooperation with Taiwan and requires expanded cooperation with India on emerging defense technologies, readiness and logistics.
China's military has often used large military exercises as a demonstration of force in response to U.S. government actions in support of Taiwan. It conducted large live-fire military exercises in August in response to US House speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. Beijing views visits from foreign governments to the island as de facto recognition of the island as independent and a challenge to China's claim of sovereignty.
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