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On August 14, Ma Kee, chairman of the Asia-Pacific Group of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led a visiting delegation composed of five members from both parties to quietly fly to Taiwan on a us military executive plane from the US military Yokota base in Japan.
Less than two weeks after Pelosi's visit to Taiwan and less than five days after the end of the PLA military exercises, this move by US politicians once again pushed the situation in the Taiwan Strait into a fever pitch.
According to statistics released by the Taiwan military on the 14th, the PLA dispatched a total of 22 military planes on the 14th, and the theater troops will normally organize combat readiness patrols in the direction of the Taiwan Strait to resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The Eastern Theater said: "The purpose of the exercise is to temper and improve the ability to accurately destroy key targets on the island, and to ensure that the air force fights quickly, accurately, and fiercely." ”
This means that the PLA Taiwan naval exercise has entered a new stage and will be normalized.
This time, the PEOPLE's Liberation Army successfully carried out long-range fire and conventional fire live fire in the predetermined sea area, the intensity and deterrence were far greater than before, and a number of "firsts" were realized: the first time to encircle Taiwan Island; For the first time, a live combat shooting range was set up east of Taiwan Island; Fire test fire crossed The island for the first time; For the first time, an aircraft carrier formation deterrent exercise was organized to build a maritime combat system.
It is worth noting that the People's Liberation Army attaches great importance to "anti-submarine warfare" in this large-scale military exercise, and in the military exercise video called "deep-sea shark hunting" released by the Eastern Theater on the 8th, the main display is the coordinated anti-submarine of all branches of the navy, including surface ships, shore-based and carrier-based anti-submarine aviation.
On the contrary, the Western media has recently paid great attention to the current situation of Taiwan's military power to argue whether it has "sufficient self-defense capabilities." However, after a series of detailed analysis, more embarrassing situations of the Taiwan military were exposed.
Although the number of equipment of the Taiwan military is large, the phenomenon of aging is the most eye-catching to the West, and the "aging" is not limited to those old equipment that has been in service for decades, but even includes the newly purchased AMERICAN AH-64E "Longbow Apache" helicopter.
The Taiwan military has always claimed that the deployment of anti-aircraft weapons, fighter jets, anti-tank weapons and other equipment is "the highest density in the world." But this high-density deployment is actually the result of a dizzying array of old and new equipment, from the artillery of World War II and the missiles of the Vietnam War to the helicopter gunships of the 21st century. Moreover, while possessing so many miscellaneous weapons, the Taiwan military seriously lacks the ability to renew and maintain them.
Although Taiwan's military expenditure ratio is high (about 2.5% of GDP), the total amount is still not enough to maintain such a large-scale equipment system, so it is difficult to replace old equipment in time. Among them, tanks, artillery, warships, and missiles are the most obsolete.
Who knows, before the words could be heard, they became a slur, and the Taiwan military turned a military exercise into a fire drill.
According to Taiwan media reports, a fire broke out on the evening of the 5th in matsu island, which was caused by a military exercise by the Taiwan military. It has been learned that in the face of the PLA's live-fire exercises against Taiwan, the Taiwan authorities also decided to respond, so they launched an artillery exercise on Matsu Island, where the Taiwan military is stationed.
However, an accident occurred, and it was suspected that the grenade fired by the Taiwan army fell into the local mountain forest, causing a mountain fire and even endangering the safety of the lives and property of the local people. The actions of the Taiwan military triggered a large number of local people to watch, and the spread of the fire made the people more worried, worried that their houses would be burned down. Helplessly, the local fire department rushed to the scene to extinguish the fire, but because of the lack of water, the fire continued to spread. Local residents even directly shouted to the People's Liberation Army, "Work hard, trouble first help extinguish the fire."
Taiwan netizens mocked that they were playing with fire and self-immolation.
Unable to control the development of the fire, the mountain fire burned for as long as two hours, and the fire department even returned to the base to store water again, only to end up embarrassingly.
On the other hand, the Taiwan military's choice to conduct exercises at night also avoided more embarrassment. If the shelling is really placed in the daytime, in terms of local hot weather, if the fire occurs during the day, it will cause greater accidents. Originally wanted to shock the PEOPLE's Liberation Army through military exercises and show its military strength, but I did not expect to end up with such embarrassment.
In the case of Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, Japan's performance was very bad, and it was the only Asian country, and only one country in all of Asia, Japan, was so bad. None of the Asian countries pelosi visited, Including Singapore, Malaysia, and South Korea, expressed support for Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. When Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong met with Pelosi, he also publicly called on the other side to work towards a stable U.S.-China relationship. South Korean President Yoon Seok-yue didn't meet with Pelosi at all, but politely called Pelosi. Only Japan, at first glance, can take advantage of the opportunity to follow the United States. On the one hand, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio met with Pelosi to talk about the Taiwan Strait issue and openly interfered in China's internal affairs; On the other hand, the Japanese side claimed that during the PLA military exercise, 5 ballistic missiles fell into the "Exclusive Economic Zone of Japan", and strongly protested to the Chinese side for this reason. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying responded that China and Japan have not yet demarcated the boundaries in the relevant waters, and China does not accept the term "Japan's exclusive economic zone." But the Japanese side continued to open its eyes and talk nonsense, and continued to repeat this lie. They think that a lie repeated a thousand times will become the truth, which is really delusional.
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