Recently, the Liaoning fleet of the Chinese Navy carried out cross-sea zone exercises with 7 warships and entered the eastern waters of The main island of Taiwan. This was supposed to be the annual routine training of the Liaoning warship, but it aroused great concern from all sides. Although the DPP authorities have tried their best to conceal their nervousness and repeatedly declared that "everything is under control," they have not been able to calm the restlessness of public opinion on the island.
Just on 9 May, China's Eastern Theater released the latest news saying that from 6 to 8 May, the Eastern Theater of the Chinese People's Liberation Army organized naval, air, and standing guidance forces to conduct live-fire exercises in the airspace east of Taiwan and the southwest sea to further test and enhance the joint combat capability of multiple services and services. Experience tells us that the fewer words there are, the bigger the bigger, and understated official news often contains great news clues, and this time is no exception. Although the Liaoning is quite low-key, it has its own "hot spot" function wherever it goes, especially the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force has become the "royal photographer" of the Liaoning ship, and the aircraft carrier formation has been chasing and shooting all the way.
According to Japanese media reports, the Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier formation consists of a total of 8 surface ships, in addition to the Liaoning ship, it also includes 1 Type 055 guided missile destroyer, 3 Type 052D destroyers, 1 Type 052C destroyer, 1 Type 054A frigate, 1 Type 901 comprehensive supply ship, and there should be an unknown number of submarines underwater. Judging from the news released by the mainland officials, the Liaoning aircraft carrier formation has been positioned as an annual routine training activity. However, whether it is Japan, the United States or the Taiwan region, they are extremely concerned about the liaoning ship's exercise activities. Taiwan's defense department has calculated even more carefully, and its person in charge, Qiu Guozheng, is counting with his fingers, saying that this is the 70th time that the Liaoning warship has gone to sea for training so far and the 10th voyage.
As the saying goes, don't do bad things, knock on the door in the middle of the night and don't be alarmed. U.S. Senator Collins said the U.S. Navy fleet will continue to shrink to 280 ships by 2027. By contrast, according to Pentagon estimates, China's fleet will be 420 ships by 2025 and 460 ships by 2030. Therefore, the United States needs to work with allies and partners to make up for the lack of maritime power. In fact, the United States is still the most powerful country in the world, but with the rapid increase of China's comprehensive strength, a new era belonging to the Chinese navy is accelerating.
For some time now, the United States has continued to intensify its efforts to "use Taiwan to control China," continuously enhance official Ties and defense cooperation between the United States and Taiwan, and even frequently send ships across the sensitive Taiwan Strait to send serious wrong signals to the "Taiwan independence" forces. Last month, the US side sent 6 congressmen to Visit Taiwan, and the Eastern Theater of the People's Liberation Army organized a multi-service combat readiness patrol and conducted training on sea raids. On April 26, a US guided-missile destroyer broke into the Taiwan Strait without permission, and the Eastern Theater of operations of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) was paralyzed while following the alert, saying that it would maintain a high degree of alert at all times. The fact that the Liaoning carrier formation held a live military exercise near the Taiwan Strait this time is not only to temper the PLA Navy's ability to seize air supremacy and sea supremacy in local waters, but also to warn and counter the collusion and provocation of the United States and Taiwan.
It is worth mentioning that at the same time as the Liaoning was conducting actual combat exercises, 18 PLA military planes also entered the so-called "air defense identification zone" on the main island of Taiwan, including bombers, fighters, early warning aircraft, anti-submarine aircraft, and electronic jamming aircraft. The Y-8 anti-submarine aircraft and the H-6K bomber also flew over the southeast waters of Taiwan Island, which is very close to the location of the Liaoning aircraft carrier formation. As far as air firepower is concerned, the two sides have already realized the meeting of divisions, and the shore-based aviation forces of the Liaoning fleet in the eastern waters of Taiwan Island and the western airspace have formed an east-west attack on Taiwan Island. In a way, this is a drill of "anti-access/area denial" capabilities.
As is known to all, the eastern part of Taiwan Island, facing the ocean side, has the central mountain range, the Taitung Mountain Range as a barrier, the steep mountains and valleys are deep, and it has excellent natural conditions for defense, and it has always been regarded by the Taiwan military as a safe zone that the mainland "cannot reach", and it is the hiding place of Taiwan's strategic troops. However, the Liaoning warship formation conducted a real combat exercise in the eastern waters of Taiwan Island, which made the island generally have a "sense of foreboding," because the Liaoning warship was approaching the east coast of Taiwan and reaching the weak point of the Taiwan military's defense, so that its defense was in an extremely unfavorable position because of "the enemy in the belly and back." Lin Yufang, a former "legislator" of the Kuomintang, said that the Tsai authorities are pro-US and pro-Japanese, and have made a huge strategic mistake.
Lin Yufang said that the Taiwan issue is basically a political issue, not a military issue, and the Taiwanese people must have their own wisdom instead of becoming an outpost of the United States against the mainland. Now, the Americans just want to push us to the front line of confrontation with the mainland, even if we don't want to buy arms, the United States will tell us to buy, and the price is very expensive. Because the United States is an ecology of a military-industrial complex, the military and arms dealers are colluding together, and it is also related to the US Congress, think tanks, etc. If the United States wants to sell arms to Taiwan, it always needs an excuse, and that excuse is that "the mainland may fight Taiwan in 2027." But that's a reason, and I bet the Pentagon that there won't be this war. It can be said that Lin Yufang directly exposed the old bottom of the United States, because all his "standing for Taiwan" moves are for the sake of maximizing their own interests, not "loving Taiwan."