When the United States is playing the Taiwan card, the mainland has taken a series of measures to prevent it, including imposing sanctions on a number of US companies that continue to sell arms to Taiwan, but the United States is still constantly arming Taiwan. During the video call between the Chinese and US defense ministers, the Chinese side has once again stressed to the US side that the Taiwan issue is the core of China's core interests, China's core interests must not be damaged, and at the same time, the PLA cannot allow all Taiwan independence separatist activities and the connivance of external forces. Judging from the data provided by the ADS-B broadcast automatic surveillance system on the same day, a P-8A anti-submarine patrol plane belonging to the US Navy flew over the Taiwan Strait in a high-profile manner.
The flight intensity of the P-8A anti-submarine patrol planes is very high, and in addition to completing a series of routine training tasks, these P-8A anti-submarine patrol planes will also conduct close reconnaissance in the Taiwan Strait. Even if war breaks out and the US anti-submarine patrol plane enters the Taiwan Strait, it actually does not have much practical significance, because the PLA has a powerful Hongqi-9 air defense missile, and the Haihongqi-9 ship-to-air missile equipped with the 052D missile destroyer alone can easily shoot down a P-8A anti-submarine patrol plane. Today, the United States is also acting to assert the so-called right to freedom of flight, which is in fact an act of constant miscalculation in the gray area.
The sensitivity of the Taiwan Strait is very high, but the airspace over the Taiwan Strait is not the mainland's territorial airspace, so the appearance of US military planes does not constitute a violation of territorial airspace, and the United States has taken advantage of this point to constantly send military planes to carry out provocations. At present, when the PLA is conducting cruise flights, its fighters do not fly over the Taiwan Strait in a north-south direction, but operate in an east-west direction across the Taiwan Strait. Judging from the various reports reported by Taiwan's defense department, PLA military planes have repeatedly approached the airspace near Taiwan Island, and are even only 40 or 50 nautical miles away from Tamsui. The US P-8A anti-submarine patrol plane is not only on the verge of military miscalculation, but will also threaten the safety of civil aviation flights.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft was hiding in civilian aircraft to carry out provocations. At present, the mainland has enabled the M503 route, and this route is to cross the Taiwan Strait in a north-south direction, the P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft is based on the Boeing 737 modified military aircraft, in appearance and the Ming aircraft is very similar, which actually increases the risk of miscalculation, of course, this also helps the US military's P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft better concealed in a large number of civil aircraft.
When China has just mentioned that the Taiwan issue is the core of China's core interests, the United States will step on China's core interests and make provocations, which actually shows that when the United States is engaged with China, China and the United States may not be able to talk at all, and in the face of the inability to negotiate with the United States, the PLA should also take the initiative to respond to the United States. At present, the two aircraft carriers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) are capable of long-range combat in the far seas, and the PLA can also consider sending the Shandong or Liaoning aircraft carriers to the far seas of the western Pacific to conduct military exercises, or even approach Guam to stage intensive takeoffs and landings of carrier-based aircraft. Text/Iris