On Sunday, the People’s Republic of China’s military force, the People’s Liberation Army, began combat drills in the “waters” and “aerial areas” around Taiwan, claiming the move was “countering collusion between external forces and TW (Taiwan) secessionists.”
Chinese state-owned media Global Times posted on Twitter, “BREAKING: PLA Eastern Theater Command held cross-service joint alert patrol & combat drills in waters, aerial areas around Taiwan island on Sunday focusing on land attack, sea assault, in a move countering collusion between external forces and TW secessionists: spokesperson.”
BREAKING: PLA Eastern Theater Command held cross-service joint alert patrol & combat drills in waters, aerial areas around Taiwan island on Sunday focusing on land attack, sea assault, in a move countering collusion between external forces and TW secessionists: spokesperson pic.twitter.com/R57NQQnwo4
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) January 8, 2023
The drills come days after Biden’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, spoke with Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s Morning Edition, on Thursday and said that it will take “hard work” to avoid military conflict with China over Taiwan, a self-governed country that China claims is part of its greater domain under their one-China principle.
The one-China principle originates out of the People’s Republic of China and states that Taiwan is part of greater China. The one-China policy is the diplomatic positioning from the US and allies that acknowledge Taiwan as technically a part of China, even while diplomatic relations exist with the internal government of Tawain, called the Republic of China.
China has scrambled jets over the region…