The maritime drills that see PLA troops entering an area within 12 nautical miles (22 kilometers) of Taiwan were announced on Tuesday evening when Speaker of the U.S. Navy Seventh Fleet spokesperson was quoted by Reuters as saying. "USS Ronald Reagan and her strike group are underway in the Philippine Sea continuing normal, scheduled operations as part of her routine patrol in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific," a U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, seems to have moved north towards Japan, according to a Beijing-based think-tank that has been tracking regional military movements. Air Force dispatched a RC-135S reconnaissance aircraft to observe the drills but the USS Ronald Reagan, the U.S. During the day, 22 Chinese military aircraft also crossed the median line dividing the Taiwan Strait, it said. The ministry said that unidentified aircraft, probably drones, were spotted over Taiwan’s Kinmen islands on Wednesday night. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said it is closely monitoring the situation, strengthening military alerts, and “will respond appropriately.” The Chinese military "launched a number of Dongfeng ballistic missiles into the waters surrounding northeastern and southwestern Taiwan at about 13:56 p.m." the ministry said without specifying the range of the missiles.īefore the launch the PLA threatened to fire missiles over Taiwan and enter the island's terrirtorial waters for the first time, in a scenario that analysts described as "The Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis."Ĭhinese international state broadcaster CGTN said “military exercises and training activities, including live-fire drills around Taiwan island” have begun. Unprecedented Chinese live-fire maritime drills got underway on Thursday with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) launching ballistic missiles into the waters around Taiwan, the Taiwanese Defense Ministry said.
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