APRIL 20, 2023 INSIGHT: GREATER CHINA China, warning Tsai, encircles Taiwan during tense 3-day ‘military patrol’ THE TAKEAWAY Though Beijing did not officially state what prompted the drills, the PLA’s latest military muscle-flexing is China’s three days of military drills in the Taiwan widely seen as a response to Taiwanese President Tsai Strait — following a meeting between Taiwanese Ing-wen’s A. [...] and Taiwan” to “upgrade IN BRIEF [their] substantive relations” and create tension, Taipei accused Beijing of “posing a serious threat to The Eastern Theater Command of China’s People’s Taiwan’s security” and “escalating regional tensions.” Liberation Army (PLA) announced on April 8 that it While the drills did little to disrupt day-to-day would carry out military patrols and a ‘Joint Sword’ activ. [...] targets of the Taiwan island” — believed to be Taipei and Kaohsiung — and proved the PLA’s “multi- 2. [...] S., which recently deployed USS Ma arrived in Taipei on April 7 after finishing his Nimitz in the vicinity of Taiwan, Japan followed the 12-day mainland tour, during which he promoted his PLA activities “with great interest” due to its proximity interpretation of the ‘One China Principle’ and sought to Taiwan. [...] Ma, the veteran der Leyen, who were on their official visits to China former leader of opposition Kuomintang (KMT), urged during the time, called for maintaining the status quo, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government and stressed that Europe must remain strategically to “choose between peace and war” thoughtfully and autonomous in crafting policies on Taiwan.
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