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The J-16 fighter seems to have become the main force of the People’s Liberation Army in air and sea operations.
The Air Force of Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense stated that 38 Chinese PLA aircraft passed through Taiwan’s Southwestern Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on October 1, setting a record for the most sorties since Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense announced statistics.
According to the news released by the Taiwan Air Force on the evening of October 1, on the National Day of the People’s Republic of China, 18 F-16s, 4 Sukai 30s, 2 H-6s and 1 Y-8 anti-submarine aircraft entered Taiwan’s Southwest Air Defense Identification. Area. Soon, the Taiwan Air Force once again announced that the Communist Army’s 10 F-16s, 2 H-6s, and 1 Aerial Police 500 entered the Southwest Air Defense Identification Zone of Taiwan yesterday evening.
The Taiwan Air Force stated that Taiwan dispatched military aircraft to respond to and carry out broadcast dispersal and anti-aircraft missile tracking and monitoring. Taiwan’s Executive Yuan Su Zhenchang told Taiwan media that China has always been aggressive and undermining regional peace, and China’s actions will be cast aside by the world and the international community.
China has not responded to the latest actions of the People’s Liberation Army. However, Zhang Chunhui, a spokesperson for the Eastern Theater of the People’s Liberation Army, previously stated that Taiwan and its affiliated islands are an inalienable part of China’s territory. The situation and the necessary actions to be taken to safeguard national sovereignty.
A military researcher and former captain of the New River of the Taiwan Navy, Lu Lishi, told the BBC Chinese that from the information provided, it is obvious that the J-16 fighter has become the main force in the PLA’s air and sea warfare.
In addition, according to statistics released by the Ministry of National Defense of Taiwan, he judged that the Communist Army should not take off from a single theater or a single base, and may be transferred from the northern, central, or southern theater beyond 1,200 nautical miles to the Taiwan Strait. “Is this training? It has become the norm and deserves attention.”
Lv Lishi also said whether the PLA AWACS at night, from its multiple missions, discovered a gap of nearly 40 kilometers between the main mountain of Beinan in the Central Mountain Range of Taiwan and the Mount Beidawu, so it was able to detect the F-16 fighter plane heading south from Hualien in eastern Taiwan. , It is necessary for the Taiwan military to verify and develop countermeasures.
According to Taiwan media’s prediction that one of Taiwan’s presidents in 2024, the Kuomintang mayor of New Taipei City, Hou Youyi, said to the Taiwan media: “The most important thing between the two sides of the strait is goodwill, equality, and mutual respect, so that everyone can work together to move forward. “.
According to a VOA report, on September 27, Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Wu Zhaoxie participated in the Indo-Pacific project annual meeting held by the “Hoover Institute” at Stanford University last week and said that China was attacking. Taiwan conducts familiarization drills, “Knowing that Taiwan will not fire the first shot, it will continue to advance its gains and test the U.S.-Taiwan response.”
Former Taiwan Chief of Staff Li Ximing said at the same forum that facing the threat from China, Taiwan must respond to the threat with an “integrated defense concept” that emphasizes asymmetric operations. Li Ximing said that asymmetric capabilities include “a large number of small, highly survivable lethal weapons, which may not attract attention in peacetime, but may become the key to victory or defeat in wartime. Taiwan can rely on its own natural environment to hide these low-cost but precise weapons. Weapons, once the enemy strikes, they will pay a great price,” he said.
The asymmetric weapons Li Ximing cited include mines, mine-laying equipment, drones, and intelligent unmanned systems equipped with sensors and 5G technology. The latter provides situational awareness and networks to help confirm target positioning. He believes This is where Taiwan’s weakness lies.
According to the official Chinese media “Wenhui.com”, regarding the PLA’s military operations around the Taiwan Strait, Zhang Chunhui, the spokesperson for the Eastern Theater of the Communist Party of China, previously stated that “Taiwan and its affiliated islands are a sacred and inalienable part of Chinese territory. Being completely legitimate is a necessary action to be taken in response to the current security situation across the Taiwan Strait and the maintenance of national sovereignty.”
Taiwan Media United News Network quoted former deputy commander of the Taiwan Air Force Zhang Yanting as saying that China sent military aircraft to the ADIZ on its National Day. In addition to showing the CCP’s hard-line attitude towards the Taiwan Exhibition, it also showed that the United States, Britain, Australia, and Japan are conducting joint exercises in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. To express his attitude, respond to the pink of elementary school.
Attacks Japan and denounces Wu Zhaoxie
In fact, in the days before and after China’s National Day, Beijing kept making hard-line comments on the Taiwan issue. At the moment when cross-strait relations are not harmonious, Taiwanese public opinion has stirred up enthusiastic discussions.
On September 30, in response to Japan’s Deputy Defense Minister Yasuhide Nakayama’s recent comment on the Pacific situation, saying that “if something happens in Taiwan is something wrong with Japan,” Wu Qian, a spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense of China, said at a regular press conference, “Things in Taiwan belong to China. It’s nothing to do with Japan.”
Wu Qian also said, “China must tell the Japanese side: China today is no longer what it was in the past, and we will never allow any country to intervene in the Taiwan issue in any way.”
On the same day, Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of Mainland China, issued a thousand-character long article attacking Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Wu Zhaoxie, saying that his words and actions in recent days “cannot be separated from the word “independence”, and various tricks are nothing more than a word of “deception.” The Taiwan Affairs Office claimed that Wu Zhaoxie and his like “jumped up and down” for Taiwan’s participation in international organizations are blatantly challenging the one-China principle of the international community:
“Unification is the right way, and Taiwan independence is a dead end. In the face of the general historical trend of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the reunification of the motherland and the national righteousness, various Taiwan independence forces are like grasshoppers after autumn. All kinds of Taiwan independence speeches are nothing but the buzzing of flies. Just sobbing,” she said.
The grasshopper mentioned in the article comes from Mao Zedong’s poem “Man Jianghong and Comrade Guo Moruo”.
The Mainland Affairs Council of Taiwan counterattacked, saying that the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council “uses extremely low-level language to slander my Minister of Foreign Affairs. This kind of verbal violence that has never been seen before in the international community only highlights the disqualification of the Taiwan-related units on the other side and calls on the Beijing authorities to be serious. Examine what serious problems have happened to the Taiwan-related speaking department.”