Chinese the people's liberation army's eastern theater is located in the sea and airspace around Taiwan Island to organize multi-service joint combat readiness patrols and actual combat drills. The Taiwan side said that on the 15th, 15 military planes crossed the so-called "central line of the Taiwan Strait", with 8 mid-term sorties, 2 J-11s, 4 J-16s and 1 straight-9 helicopters.
The reason for this exercise was that foreign politicians continued to send wrong signals to the "Taiwan independence" forces on the island, so the PLA launched a targeted "encirclement of Taiwan" live-fire military exercise. This also means that the "noose" that the PLA has put around the neck of the "Taiwan independence" forces has tightened tighter and tighter.
(Pla.PLA military exercise on "encircling Taiwan" around Taiwan)
Taiwan's economy is extremely dependent on shipping, and about 99% of the energy needed by Taiwan, such as oil, natural gas and coal, needs to be imported from the outside through sea, and various industrial raw materials also need to be transported from the sea to Taiwan Island. All kinds of manufactured and agricultural products produced on the island also need to be transported by sea to the consumer market. This economic model means that if sea lanes are blocked, it won't be long before Taiwan's economy collapses on its own.
(Oil reserves are important for war.)
According to Taiwan's claim, the island's oil reserves are only enough to last for 7 days (another says 146 days), natural gas reserves can be maintained for 10 days, coal reserves can be maintained for 30 days a month, and Taiwan's oil and natural gas are on average 3-4 days and need to be replenished once. In this case, if the PLA's live-fire exercises around Taiwan continue for 10-30 days, even if Taiwan's oil supply can still be maintained, the rest of the island's energy supply will be in a full-blown crisis. More importantly, Taiwan's annual grain production is only about 1.79 million tons, and the grain self-sufficiency rate is only 32%, which leads to the need for large-scale imports of taiwan's grain. According to statistics, 60% of Taiwan's corn comes from Brazil, 75% of wheat comes from the United States, and once the shipping line is cut off, then Taiwan will soon fall into a grain shortage. As the saying goes, "People are iron, rice is steel, and a meal is not eaten and hungry panic", once a grain shortage occurs, coupled with economic collapse, then Taiwan will most likely fall without a war.
(Food is a strategic material more important than energy.)
Blockade operations are a very costly mode of warfare, and without sufficient economic support, it is difficult to implement them for a long time. In the past, because the mainland was economically backward behind Taiwan, and because of the economic conditions and the level of weapons and equipment of the PLA, it was not only difficult for the PLA to operate in the Philippine Sea east of Taiwan, but even the so-called "middle line of the Taiwan Strait" was difficult to fly over.
Today, the situation has changed completely. The PLA already has the world's second largest surface fleet after the U.S. Navy, especially the new generation of Chinese destroyers is already a "S.H.I.E.L.D." At present, the total number of "Aegis ships" in the human Navy has exceeded the total number of Aegis ships in all other countries in the world other than the US Navy. Moreover, in addition to surface ships, the PLA also has bomb-6K strategic bombers, air police-500 early warning aircraft, fuel-20 tankers, and combat aircraft such as the J-16 and J-10C. In particular, the PLA already has two aircraft carrier battle groups composed of 60,000-ton aircraft carriers. With its powerful naval and air force, the PLA has been able to form a three-dimensional encirclement posture of sea and air against Taiwan, and is fully capable of cutting off all sea and air ties between the island and the outside world.
Although China has been very opposed to such a thing as a "brotherly wall" since ancient times, there are always a handful of "Taiwan independence" elements who take the goodwill of the mainland of the motherland as weak and deceitful. For such people, if necessary, let them see the thunderous means of the People's Liberation Army.