{"id":44146,"date":"2024-05-24T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T13:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/ministry-of-national-defense-says-taiwan-military-exercises-are-legal-necessary-china-daily\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T13:03:15","slug":"ministry-of-national-defense-says-taiwan-military-exercises-are-legal-necessary-china-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ministry-of-national-defense-says-taiwan-military-exercises-are-legal-necessary-china-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of National Defense says Taiwan military exercises are \u2018legal, necessary\u2019 \u2013 China Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ministry of National Defense said on Friday that the ongoing military exercises conducted by the People\u2019s Liberation Army around the island of Taiwan are targeted at \u201cTaiwan independence\u201d forces and external interference, and are \u201ccompletely reasonable, legal, legitimate and necessary\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ministry spokesperson Senior Colonel Wu Qian made the remarks on Friday afternoon in response to United States military officials who claimed that the PLA exercises escalated tensions in the Taiwan Strait.<\/p>\n

On Thursday morning, the PLA Eastern Theater Command announced a two-day joint military exercise taking place in the Taiwan Strait and to the north, south and east of Taiwan, as well as areas around the islands of Jinmen, Matsu, Wuqiu and Dongyin, which are located in the Taiwan Strait.<\/p>\n

Wu said that the drills are aimed at striking the rampant \u201cTaiwan independence\u201d forces and deterring external forces from interfering. \u201cThey\u2019re completely reasonable, legal, legitimate and necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe leader of the Taiwan region has seriously challenged the one-China principle since taking office, blatantly peddling the \u2018two-state theory,\u2019 attempting to seek independence through force and relying on external forces for independence, pushing Taiwan compatriots into a dangerous situation of war and peril,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is playing with fire, and those who play with fire will absolutely burn themselves,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n

He emphasized that Taiwan is China\u2019s Taiwan, and how to resolve the Taiwan question should be decided by more than 1.4 billion Chinese people.<\/p>\n

The PLA defends national sovereignty and territorial integrity through practical actions, Wu said.<\/p>\n

He warned, \u201cEach provocation of \u2018Taiwan independence\u2019 will prompt our countermeasures to advance one step further, until the complete reunification of our motherland is achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Ministry of National Defense said on Friday that the ongoing military exercises conducted by the People\u2019s Liberation Army around the island of Taiwan are targeted at \u201cTaiwan independence\u201d forces and external interference, and are \u201ccompletely reasonable, legal, legitimate and necessary\u201d. The ministry spokesperson Senior Colonel Wu Qian made the remarks on Friday afternoon in […]<\/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-44146","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\/44146","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=44146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}