{"id":127545,"date":"2025-12-29T12:07:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/pla-begins-large-scale-drill-around-taiwan-island\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T12:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:07:59","slug":"pla-begins-large-scale-drill-around-taiwan-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/pla-begins-large-scale-drill-around-taiwan-island\/","title":{"rendered":"PLA begins large-scale drill around Taiwan Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEIJING, China, Dec 29 \u2014 The People\u2019s Liberation Army has unfolded a large-scale live-fire exercise surrounding the Taiwan Island, involving its ground, air, naval, and missile forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the exercise named \u201cJustice Mission 2025\u201d that began on Monday morning, the PLA Eastern Theater Command mobilized fighter jets, bombers, and drones, which were flying over the central parts of the Taiwan Strait, to cooperate with long-range rocket launchers on the ground to simulate precision strikes against mobile land-based targets.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, another group of destroyers, frigates, fighters, and bombers conducted drills in the waters and airspace to the east of the Taiwan Strait, attacking simulated targets in the air and at sea.<\/p>\n<p>To the north and southwest of the Taiwan Strait, warships, strike planes, drones, and long-range firepower units practiced tracking and eliminating hostile targets and used live ammunition to hit simulated targets at sea.<\/p>\n<p>In a video clip published by the Eastern Theater Command, some of the PLA\u2019s best types of hardware deployed in the exercise include the J-20 stealth fighter and the DF-17 hypersonic ballistic missile launcher.<\/p>\n<p>According to Senior Colonel Shi Yi, spokesman for the command, the exercise is a stern warning against \u201cTaiwan independence\u201d separatists and external forces attempting to interfere in the Taiwan question and is a legitimate and necessary action to safeguard China\u2019s sovereignty and national unity.<\/p>\n<p>For more visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/society\">China Daily<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For subscriptions on news from China Daily, or inquiries, please contact China Daily Africa Ltd on +254 20 6920900 or write to enquiries@chinadailyafrica.com<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, China, Dec 29 \u2014 The People\u2019s Liberation Army has unfolded a large-scale live-fire exercise surrounding the Taiwan Island, involving its ground, air, naval, and missile forces. During the exercise named \u201cJustice Mission 2025\u201d that began on Monday morning, the PLA Eastern Theater Command mobilized fighter jets, bombers, and drones, which were flying over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}