China has stepped up military activity around the island, where the losing nationalists set up their government at the end of the civil war in 1949, sending fighter jets and warships on exercises close to Taiwan. Communist-ruled China claims the island as its own and has not ruled out the use of force to assert its control. Taiwan's defence ministry, in a statement late on Thursday to accompany a video showing Taiwanese forces taking part in drills, said it was "expressing its stern attitude about recent Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army military pressure acts".
fredag 21. august 2020
Taiwan shows military might in slick video as China circles
China should not underestimate Taiwan's determination to defend itself, and military threats will only cause Taiwan's people to be even more resolute, the island's defence ministry said in a new video responding to repeated Chinese threats.
China has stepped up military activity around the island, where the losing nationalists set up their government at the end of the civil war in 1949, sending fighter jets and warships on exercises close to Taiwan. Communist-ruled China claims the island as its own and has not ruled out the use of force to assert its control. Taiwan's defence ministry, in a statement late on Thursday to accompany a video showing Taiwanese forces taking part in drills, said it was "expressing its stern attitude about recent Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army military pressure acts".
China has stepped up military activity around the island, where the losing nationalists set up their government at the end of the civil war in 1949, sending fighter jets and warships on exercises close to Taiwan. Communist-ruled China claims the island as its own and has not ruled out the use of force to assert its control. Taiwan's defence ministry, in a statement late on Thursday to accompany a video showing Taiwanese forces taking part in drills, said it was "expressing its stern attitude about recent Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army military pressure acts".
