{"id":30822,"date":"2021-04-15T13:24:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T20:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=30822"},"modified":"2021-04-15T13:24:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T20:24:13","slug":"china-hints-its-military-activity-near-taiwan-a-rehearsal-for-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/china-hints-its-military-activity-near-taiwan-a-rehearsal-for-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"China Hints Its Military Activity near Taiwan a \u2018Rehearsal\u2019 for Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

China\u2019s latest military exercise near Taiwan on Monday \u201ccould be a rehearsal of a reunification-by-force operation,\u201d China\u2019s state-run Global Times <\/em>suggested<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted an exercise near the island of Taiwan on Monday with the largest number of warplanes ever recorded, which could be a rehearsal of a reunification-by-force operation,\u201d the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mouthpiece wrote on April 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China\u2019s PLA deployed<\/a> 25 aircraft to fly over Taiwan, breaching its air defense identification zone (ADIZ), on April 12, Taiwan\u2019s Ministry of National Defense (MND) said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PLA\u2019s exercise included \u201c14 J-16 and four J-10 multirole fighters, four H-6K strategic bombers, two KQ-200 anti-submarine warfare (ASW)-capable aircraft, as well as one KJ-500 airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) platform,\u201d the military website Janes reported<\/a> Monday, citing the MND\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The air sortie was the PLA\u2019s largest near Taiwan since the sovereign nation began publicly reporting PLA aircraft movements over the island in September 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe number of PLA warplanes featured in the [April 12] exercise was a record since Taiwan\u2019s defense authorities began to release information about PLA aircraft activities in the region on September 17, 2020, surpassing the previous record of 20 on March 26. The number of J-16s, a powerful fighter jet, was also the biggest of all exercises,\u201d the Global Times<\/em> boasted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe exercise could be a rehearsal of its [the PLA\u2019s] combat plan over the Taiwan island, and it could feature air superiority seizure, and attack on land and maritime targets, including warships of interfering foreign countries,\u201d Song Zhongping, a Chinese military expert and TV commentator, told the newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PLA\u2019s record-breaking exercise near Taiwan on April 12 was a direct response to the U.S. issuing<\/a> new guidelines meant to \u201cdeepen\u201d its unofficial support of Taiwan nation two days earlier on April 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe exercise conducted by the PLA served as a warning to Taiwan secessionists and the US after the two had made a series of provocative moves,\u201d the Global Times<\/em> wrote on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China\u2019s latest military exercise near Taiwan on Monday \u201ccould be a rehearsal of a reunification-by-force operation,\u201d China\u2019s state-run Global Times suggested Tuesday. \u201cThe Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted an exercise near the island of Taiwan on Monday with the largest number of warplanes ever recorded, which could be a rehearsal of a reunification-by-force operation,\u201d the Chinese Communist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":30823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/j20figh.png?fit=700%2C358&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30824,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30822\/revisions\/30824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}