He Taiwan Ministry of Defense denounced this Friday the incursion of 14 combat aircraft and 6 Chinese regime vessels who approached his air and sea spaceas it has happened in the last three days.
Five of the Chinese fighters reportedly entered the air defense identification zone southwest of Taiwan, as detailed by the ministry in a message on the social network Twitter.
Taiwan assigned Air Force aircraft, Navy vessels and land-based missile systems to respond to threats from the Xi Jinping’s army.
The chinese raid It comes just one day after 17 fighters crossed Taiwan’s air identification delimitation, an episode that has been common for months.
This Thursday, another 23 planes of the Chinese regime approached the air and sea space of Taiwan sending an alert signal to the security forces.
This new incursion by China comes as Beijing prepares a possible blockade or direct attack on Taiwan, which has aroused great concern among the military leaders of USATaipei’s main ally.
On December 26, Taipei denounced the presence of 71 Chinese aircraft in the vicinity of the island, in an unprecedented air deployment around Taiwan.
Beijing thus responded to the approval by Congress of USA Of the call National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which provides for an expense of 858,000 million of dollars in defense, energy and national security that includes military aid to Taiwan.
Taipei announced that it would extend from 2024 the compulsory military service for menwhich currently is four months, up to a year, “before the advance of Chinese authoritarianism”, explained the president, Tsai Ing-wen.
taiwan It is considered a sovereign territory with a government and its own political system under the name of Republic of China from the end of the civil war between nationalists and communists in 1949, but Beijing maintains that it is a rebellious province and insists that it return to what it calls a common homeland.
The island is also one of the biggest sources of conflict between China and the United States, due to the fact that Washington is Taiwan’s main arms supplier and would be its biggest military allyr in case of eventual war conflict with Beijing.
A few days ago, a four-star general from the United States Air Force warned that there is a possibility of a conflict with china for within two years (2025) – most likely by Taiwan – and urged his commanders to push their units towards the maximum operational readiness for a battle that year.
In an internal memo first made public on social media and later confirmed as genuine by the Pentagonthe leader of Air Mobility Commandgeneral Mike Minihansaid the main objective should be to deter “and, if required, defeat” China.
“I hope I’m wrong. My gut tells me that we will be in combat in 2025″, assured Minihan.
Minihan explained that the presidential elections in Taiwan next year they would give the Xi Jinping regime a pretext for a military aggressionwhile USA would be distracted by his own electoral race for the White House.
“Xin team, motive and opportunity align in 2025″he added.
The memorandum also summons all Mobile Command personnel to go to the firing range, “shoot a provider” towards the target and “aim for the head”.
Via email, a Pentagon spokesman responded to a request for comment from the AFP about the memo: “Yes, it’s a fact that he sent that”.
The Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austinassured on January 11 during a press conference together with Japanese officials, that the United States had observed a “very provocative behavior” of the chinese forces in an attempt to boost the international standards. But he also played down concerns that China could launch an attack on Taiwan any time soon.
(With information from EFE and AFP)
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