China launches major military drills around Taiwan as island deploys forces to 'protect freedom'

China's military has launched two days of major drills around Taiwan, encircling the island with ships and fighter jets in the greatest escalation in tension across the Taiwan Strait since 2022.

Li Jia, a People's Liberation Army (PLA) spokesperson, called the drills "strong punishment for the separatist acts of Taiwan's independence forces".

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[wjaz]

Damn, season 3 of the world war just keeps getting better and better

[Joe-jdpn]

China needs to just grow up and stop acting like a 5 year old.

[Jon-hi]

More military drills by china? They have the whole of the South China Sea to conduct these drills, but constantly poke this little island

[enriquemarcella]

'Punishing' Taiwan by holding drills. How is that even punishment? Really, Chinese propaganda needs to come up with better lines.

[hopewang]

Another Zelensky, China should teach him a lesson.

[oneGodtobe]

Hopefully all the chinese military hardware is as durable as the stuff available on alibaba

[sbgandalf]

The economy is screwed. What better way to distract the masses?

[travellerstoryteller]

Taiwan is already independent and sovereign country!!! 😂😂😂

[coconuciferanuts]

China should just grow trade & increase business with Taiwan. No need for tension.

[oceanbreeze]

Great opportunity for Taiwan and nearby allies in Okinawa to collect PLA’s military data and stats!

[stinsoncal]

This is not punishment. The CCP looks silly!

[Landyjade]

The same guy is manning all the stations on that ship 🥵

[chadheckler]

Doesn't this also help Taiwan prepare for a invasion.
Taiwan are training as real life wile China does drills 🤷‍♂️

[qazmlp]

How much does the harassment estimate exercise cost?

[Wvkzc]

Suddenly all US navy disappeared during this exercise lmao

[jm]

Leave Taiwan alone wtf. Beautiful island

[roberttungatt]

Anyone else notice the translation seemed a little elongated !

[calvinblue]

No real incident actually happened..
Connect the dots.. Fujian just went out for first sea trial..
This is their military exercises for training the Fujian..

[RAIN-nish]

Why China saying international law, they don't even recognize it😂,

[gpadd_ow]

I don’t see this as, a “severe escalation” they did worse in 2022 and it lasted a week.