China has launched a major military exercise off Taiwan on Tuesday, which will act as a "strong warning and severe deterrence" against Taiwan.
Although it is not unusual for China to do military exercises off the neighboring island, Tuesday's exercise is at the big end of the scale. This is stated by Andreas Bøge Forsby, a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS).
- It involves, among other things, one of the Chinese aircraft carriers, a lot of aircraft and also their coastal guard dollars, because at the same time they do a parallel exercise where they practice how it would be to introduce some kind of blockade against Taiwan, he tells TV 2.
According to Taiwan's Defense Minister, 71 Chinese aircraft and 13 Chinese naval vessels participate in the exercise, Reuters writes.
Andreas Bøje Forsby also says that since 2018 there have been about 12 military exercises and that the largest of them was back in 2022 when the then woman of Congress in the United States, Nancy Pelosi, visited Taiwan.
The military exercise is well timed to be response to the defense minister's tour
Andreas Bøge Forsby, senior scientist at DIIS
The deterrence comes after Taiwan has recently turned up the rhetoric towards China.
Among other things, Taiwan's president has recently come up with suggestions on how Taiwan can differ from the mainland China, and China has been provoked.
This is what Camilla Tenna Nørup Sørensen, an associate professor at the Department of Strategy and War Studies at the Defense Acad...
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