Taking Pratas Island -- located closer to Hong Kong than Taiwan -- could give China a new launching ground for future military operations without provoking a full-scale conflict with the US. - NASA photo
The exercises signal Beijing’s displeasure with the democratically elected government in Taipei and its successful effort to court greater US support, as seen by a mention in the Group of Seven communique this week. Taking Pratas Island -- located closer to Hong Kong than Taiwan -- could give China a new launching ground for future military operations without provoking a full-scale conflict with the US.
China’s warplanes made more incursions into the southern part of Taiwan’s air defence identification zone last year than in the previous five years combined. Such exercises help"carry out military simulations according to an actual combat plan and rehearse in the real environment, ” Song Zhongping, a former PLA instructor on missile technology, told a social media account run by the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper.
Chinese state media have hinted at an expansion of the strategy amid domestic calls for a tougher response to US moves. "China is currently attempting to bring about reunification through a ‘grey zone’ campaign of mounting pressure, confident that time is on its side and that within the next few years the PLA will be able to overmatch the US in the Taiwan Strait.”
China also test-fired anti-ship missiles into the South China Sea last year, in what US Indo-Pacific Command Admiral Phil Davidson called an"unmistakable message” of the country’s focus on"countering any potential third-party intervention during a regional crisis.”
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