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China on Monday launched military drills around Taiwan, Beijing’s defense ministry said, sending planes and ships to encircle the self-ruled island.
Beijing maintains a near-daily military presence around Taiwan and Monday’s drills represent its fourth round of large-scale war games in the past two years.
The drills, dubbed Joint Sword-2024B, “test the joint operations capabilities of the theater command’s troops,” Beijing said.
They are taking place in “areas to the north, south and east of Taiwan Island” Captain Li Xi, spokesman for the Chinese military’s Eastern Theater Command, said.
The drills are “focusing on subjects of sea-air combat-readiness patrol, blockade on key ports and areas,” Li said.
They also practiced an “assault on maritime and ground targets” and “joint seizure of comprehensive superiority.
