China began two days of military drills surrounding Taiwan in what it says is punishment for the 'separatist act' of inaugurating a new president.
The Chinese military has begun conducting massive military drills encircling Taiwan in 'punishment' for the self-governing island's election of a new president this week. The two days of drills began Thursday, and Taiwan responded by scrambling jets and placing its army and navy on high alert. China now makes common use of military drills to intimidate and harass Taiwan, which it claims is its sovereign territory.
Taiwan's foreign ministry condemned the drills in a statement Thursday morning, calling it 'irrational provocation' on the part of China. This pretext for conducting military exercises not only does not contribute to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, but also shows its hegemonic nature at heart,' the ministry's statement said. In his inauguration address on Monday, Lai called for Beijing to cease its military intimidation and pledged to 'neither yield nor provoke' the mainland Communist Party leadership.
China’s Foreign Ministry warned that Taiwan independence was a 'dead-end' on the day of the presidential inauguration. 'No matter under what name or excuse, pushing for Taiwan independence is doomed to fail,' the ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin argued at a daily news briefing when asked about Lai's inauguration.
Mainland China has long claimed Taiwan as part of its territory. The island first split from Beijing in 1949, when pro-democracy forces fled there after losing a civil war to the Chinese Communist Party. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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