The exercises included reconnaissance, early warning, air blockades and precision strikes against key targets, according to the Chinese military. Chinese state media also showed the takeoff of the J-10 and the launch of missiles from the H-6K, capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
Taiwan's Defense Ministry recorded four sorties of Chinese aircraft and called the Chinese media reports an “influence operation to intimidate the public.”
CNN recalled that China regularly increases military, diplomatic and economic pressure on Taiwan. The United States maintains close unofficial ties with the island and supplies weapons for its self-defense, but has not said whether it would intervene in the event of an invasion.
US President Donald Trump went on a several-day tour at the end of last week. on the Indo-Pacific region, within the framework of which a meeting with the leader of the PRC is planned on October 30 Xi Jinping.
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Taiwan (officially the Republic of China) and the People's Republic of China are separated by the Taiwan Strait. Since 1949, Taiwan has been governed by its own administration, the flag and some other attributes of the Republic of China, which was on the mainland before the Communist Party of China came to power, remain there, but it does not officially declare its independence. According to the official position of the PRC, The island is considered one of the provinces of China.
Relations between China and Taiwan have deteriorated in recent years, with Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowing to pursue peaceful “reunification” with Taiwan. A number of analysts have stated that the Chinese army could attack Taiwan at any time. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte also warned that China wants to start a war in Taiwan, setting the aggressor country of the Russian Federation against Europe.
