Beijing, 11 apr. Taiwan denounced on Tuesday the incursion of 26 Chinese planes and 9 ships in areas around the island despite the fact that Beijing announced yesterday the end of the maneuvers carried out by its Army, the official CNA agency reported.
The source, citing the Taiwanese Defense Ministry, added that 14 of the Chinese planes crossed the median line of the Strait of Formosa, which in practice is an unofficial border tacitly respected by Taipei and Beijing in recent decades.
The movements were detected until 11:00 in the morning today (03:00 GMT).
China on Saturday announced three days of exercises around the island in response to a meeting last Wednesday in California between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Tsai assured last night on the social network Facebook that as president she represents her country “to the world”, and that her visits abroad are not new and that is what the Taiwanese expect her to do.
“However, China used this to launch military exercises, causing instability in Taiwan and the region. This is not a responsible attitude,” he said.
China concluded its maneuvers on Monday with a simulation of the blockade of the island and with the anticipated participation of Shandong, the second aircraft carrier of the Asian country.
The Chinese Defense Ministry announced the “complete success” of the exercises, according to spokesman Shi Yi, who assured that the forces are “ready to resolutely crush any form of separatism and attempts at foreign interference.”
For their part, Chinese Foreign Affairs spokesmen have assured in recent days that the “greatest threat to peace in Taiwan” is “separatist activities and collusion with foreign forces”, and that the maneuvers were “necessary to protect the sovereignty and national territorial integrity”.
Beijing has considered Taiwan a rogue province since Kuomintang nationalists withdrew there in 1949 after losing the civil war to the communist army.
In recent weeks there have been frictions between Taipei and Beijing as a result of Tsai’s meeting with McCarthy, but also due to Honduras breaking off relations with Taiwan to later establish them with China, which reduced the number of diplomatic allies of Taipei to 13. the island.
