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After China recently carried out a menacing military exercise around Taiwan, there are even observations that it will use both carriers to participate in siege training in Taiwan.
However, the United States will send the undersecretary of state to Taiwan this week to further strengthen cooperation and support.
Get connected by phone to Beijing, China. Correspondent Sungwoong Kang!
Were China’s military exercises around Taiwan last week more intimidating than ever?
[기자]The Taiwanese Ministry of Defense has announced that Chinese military aircraft have invaded Taiwan’s air defense identification zone more than 20 times in just two days.
During the past two days, on the 9th and 10th, Chinese fighter and transport aircraft flew a total of more than 30 flights in southwestern Taiwan airspace, of which 21 entered the air defense identification zone. from Taiwan.
This threatening military exercise by the Chinese military is interpreted as a warning that Taiwan, with the support of the United States, has launched a new missile test in eastern waters.
The Taiwanese Defense Ministry harshly criticized China’s harsh provocations and protested against overlooking Taiwan’s willingness to defend liberal democracy.
Meanwhile, it is noted that two Chinese aircraft carriers, which are currently known to be training in the East China Seas, may be trained near Taiwan later this month.
The Global Times newspaper, a Chinese news agency, said Taiwanese forces are preparing for the possibility of Chinese carriers Liaoning and Shandong participating in joint exercises around the island of Taiwan on the 22nd.
This Global Times report quotes the Taiwanese media. This is the first time that simultaneous training of two Chinese carriers has been carried out, and if it takes place around Taiwan, the level of response from Taiwan and the United States is expected to increase.
[앵커]The United States is also firm on the issue of Taiwan, how is it coming out?
[기자]The United States will begin training for the so-called “ brave shield ” in which the Indo-Pacific Command mobilized aircraft carriers in the waters around the island of Guam for 12 days starting tomorrow.
The U.S. Pacific Fleet Command says the training will involve Ronald Reagan aircraft carriers, destroyers, 100 military aircraft and more than 11,000 soldiers at sea near Guam and Mariana.
He also revealed that the exercise was intended to demonstrate the United States’ strong commitment to the Indo-Pacific, which is free and open to neighboring countries, and made clear that it was intended to contain Chinese military activities in the Sea of South China and around Taiwan.
The United States is also reportedly sending the Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs to Taiwan this week, followed by Health and Welfare Minister Alix Aiza last month.
This follows the US State Department’s announcement last month that it will resume economic dialogue with Taiwan, and cooperation in the field of fifth-generation semiconductor supply and mobile communications is expected to be discussed primarily.
It is noted that the economic cooperation between the United States and Taiwan is carried out as a strategy to exclude China from the global supply chain, which is an issue that Korea should also pay attention to.
YTN Kang Seong-woong in Beijing so far[[email protected]]it is.
