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Is China Making a Move? China Conducts Large-Scale Naval Exercises Near Taiwan, Taipei Defiant

By Ward Clark | 4:55 PM on October 14, 2024

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Are things in the western Pacific about to get very interesting indeed? On Monday, China conducted a naval warfare exercise of unprecedented scale, and those exercises were uncomfortably close to Taiwan.

China employed a record 125 aircraft, as well as its Liaoning aircraft carrier and ships, in large-scale military exercises surrounding Taiwan and its outlying islands Monday, simulating the sealing off of key ports in a move that underscores the tense situation in the Taiwan Strait, officials said.

China made clear it was to punish Taiwan’s president for rejecting Beijing’s claim of sovereignty over the self-governed island.

The drills came four days after Taiwan celebrated the founding of its government on its National Day, when Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said in a speech that China has no right to represent Taiwan and declared his commitment to “resist annexation or encroachment.”

This will, of course, fuel some inevitable speculation about China's intent in this exercise. Primary among those concerns: Is China considering making some move against Taiwan now, while befuddled old Joe Biden is still in the White House (or, more likely, on a beach in Rehoboth, but you get the idea.) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is doubtlessly thinking ahead to a possible second term of Donald Trump in the White House, and among China's leadership - Chairman Xi and his cadres of yes-men - there has to be a little trepidation about that possibility, and the Chinese military has to be war-gaming the possibility of a more aggressive American stance vis-à-vis support for Taiwan in the face of any Chinese attempt to reclaim that island.

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