TAIPEI: Taiwan kicked off a five-day set of military drills on Monday aimed at boosting the island\u2019s combat readiness in case of a Chinese military attack.<\/p>\n
In the city of Taoyuan, home to the island\u2019s largest international airport, tanks drove down city streets and highways, videos and photos of the exercise showed, as armored vehicles from the Army\u2019s 269th Infantry Brigade conducted combat readiness patrols morning.<\/p>\n
The Immediate Combat Readiness Exercises are meant to test how rapidly military units can deploy, especially in the face of a possible sudden escalation of Chinese grey-zone warfare. Grey-zone tactics refer to a range of aggressive tactics that vary from navy ship patrols to drone flights, but fall short of direct combat.<\/p>\n
The exercises, announced Sunday afternoon, are meant to be realistic, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement, with an emphasis on \u201creal-time, live-fire and on-site.\u201d<\/p>\n
These exercises are designed to simulate what would happen before enemy forces launched their ships, according to Taiwan\u2019s semi-official Central News Agency. The series of exercises could also include impromptu ones in the future, including real-time responses to Chinese military drills.<\/p>\n
China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army sent 23 aircraft toward Taiwan from Sunday into Monday morning, according to Taiwan\u2019s defense ministry. That was accompanied by seven navy ships and five other Chinese government ships. China sends war planes, drones and navy ships toward the island on a daily basis.<\/p>\n
Taiwan regularly conducts combat readiness drills as it seeks to bolster its defense capabilities amid ongoing military pressure from China, which claims the self-governed island as its own territory and has not ruled out the use of force to bring it under its control. Earlier in June, Taiwan fired rockets in China\u2019s direction for the first time as part of a military exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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