Original title: 38 PLA military aircraft entered the southwest airspace of Taiwan on the same day, the US Deputy Secretary of Defense declared that the United States “monitors the risk of cross-strait conflict daily”
[Global Times-Global Network Reporter Zhao Juehui]According to the official website of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a US think tank, the US Deputy Secretary of Defense Hicks attended an online conference at the center on the 1st of this month and was When asked about the possible military conflict between the mainland and Taiwan, he said that the US military closely monitored this and declared that the US military “has a strong capability to contain such potential threats” in the region.
U.S. media quoted Hicks’ remarks that day that the United States is highly concerned about the situation in Taiwan, and the Indo-Pacific Command in Hawaii pays attention to the situation in the Western Pacific every day. Hicks reiterated that the United States will maintain its commitment to Taiwan and help Taiwan “improve its self-defense capabilities to change the mainland’s intimidation.”
Not long ago, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022,” which also accused China of “coercive behavior” against Taiwan and the peaceful resolution of the Taiwan issue. It proposed that the United States should support Taiwan to enhance its “self-defense” capabilities. The spokesperson of the Ministry of National Defense, Colonel Wu Qian, responded to this on September 30, stating that the US law case is blatantly advocating that the US-Taiwan military ties are “playing with fire.” The Taiwan issue is China’s internal affair, which has a bearing on China’s core interests and will never allow any external interference. Wu Qian emphasized that if anyone dares to challenge China’s bottom line on the Taiwan issue, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army will never agree and will resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
On the same day that Hicks made the above remarks, according to Taiwan media reports, Taiwan’s military announced twice on the 1st that PLA military aircraft had entered Taiwan’s so-called “Southwest Air Defense Identification Zone.” “Following the 25 military flights during the day on the 1st, 13 PLA military aircrafts continued to enter Taiwan during the night, and a total of 38 military aircrafts were dispatched in a single day.”
Schematic diagram of PLA military aircraft around Taiwan.Taiwan media quoted from the official website of the Taiwan Defense Department.