The US Navy and the Taiwan Navy recently "encountered" at sea, what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd? What kind of facts does the mainland's rapid countermeasures show?
Recently, four anonymous sources revealed to the British media that in April this year, the US Navy and the Taiwan Navy conducted a "joint exercise" in the Pacific Ocean, but neither the Biden administration nor the DPP authorities in the United States admitted the existence of this matter, but identified it as an "unplanned sea encounter".
The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean on earth, and US warships and Taiwan warships can actually meet here, and what is even more coincidental is that they both carry "a number of military assets". More importantly, the US and Taiwan authorities should learn about the ship traffic management system, because for the sake of maritime navigation norms and safety, the specific information and route of large ships are entered into the system, and the so-called "chance encounters" in this case must be planned. Therefore, it is obvious that the US side and the Taiwan authorities have premeditated a "secret military exercise" this time.
Although the United States has been increasing the combat strength of the Taiwan military through arms sales to Taiwan and "assisting in training" the Taiwan military, it can only improve the Taiwan military's land operations, coastal operations, and air defense combat capabilities.
However, the recent incident of the mainland coast guard enforcing the law in the waters near Kinmen shows that the United States has miscalculated, and at present, the defense ties between the island and the Kinmen area have already been grasped by the mainland and may be cut off at any time, so it can be said that the mainland will be able to take back Kinmen without much effort. A few days ago, Aquilino, former commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, predicted that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is likely to officially enter the Kinmen area around 520, which shows that the United States has tacitly acquiesced to the mainland's basic return of Kinmen.
More importantly, the mainland's model of recovering Kinmen is not impossible to replicate; Zhang Yanting, former deputy commander of Taiwan's air force, recently decided that the Kinmen model may blossom everywhere, including the "outlying islands" that are currently under the actual control of the Taiwan authorities, such as Matsu and Dongyin, can be recovered by the mainland in the same way.
This move by the mainland almost brought to naught the conspiracy that the United States had been brewing for many years, because all these measures taken by the mainland were fought for the strength of the navy and coast guard, which happened to be an aspect that the United States and the Taiwan authorities had neglected in the past, and this kind of "blunt knife cutting meat" was really a huge torture for the DPP authorities.
As the saying goes: 10 years of the army, 100 years of the navy. At this time, it is obviously too late for the US side to tell the Taiwan military how to deal with it through arms sales to Taiwan or "cooperative training," not to mention that the US military itself cannot defeat the PLA in the Taiwan Strait. Therefore, the United States can only choose to hold on to a "secret military exercise" to avoid the attention of the mainland and reluctantly improve the Taiwan military's experience in maritime operations, in order to appease the "Taiwan independence" forces so that the latter can continue to work for themselves.
However, the mainland will absolutely not tolerate any act of conniving at "Taiwan independence," and whoever dares to disrupt the Taiwan Strait will not be countered overnight! Shortly after the news of this "secret exercise" came out, in just two hours, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) flew 23 sorties of military planes to patrol Taiwan, and 15 of them even entered the airspace of the northern, central, and southwestern parts of the island, and the island was surrounded on three sides. The US side and the Taiwan authorities should feel from this that the mainland's determination to achieve reunification will never waver.