The Lai Ching-de authorities refused to surrender, and even openly called for the mainland, and the Taiwan military also changed the definition of the so-called "first strike." The provocation was extremely strong, and the Ministry of Defense directly sent four sentences, what did Lai Ching-de say? What is the definition of the "first strike" by the Taiwan military now? What 4 sentences did the Ministry of Defense specifically say?
After Lai Ching-te, the new leader of the Taiwan region, came to power, he claimed that he was "willing to promote cross-strait dialogue and exchanges with the goal of mutual benefit and common prosperity," but on the other hand, he openly called on the mainland and refused to surrender. On the 16th, Lai Qingde even made all kinds of wild remarks, when Lai Qingde presided over the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Whampoa Military Academy in Kaohsiung, he once again threw all the responsibility for the current tense situation in the Taiwan Strait to the mainland, claiming that "the mainland rises strongly, destroys the status quo in the Taiwan Strait, and regards the 'annexation' of the Taiwan region as the great rejuvenation of its great national cause, so the highest mission of the Taiwan military is to bravely shoulder the heavy responsibility of protecting Taiwan and maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait." Prior to this, when Lai Qingde inspected Taitung's "Haifeng Brigade" and took a group photo with the "Hsiung-3" missile vehicle, he openly clamored that he would confront the PLA by "controlling the sea by land."
In order to match Lai Ching-te's argument, the Taiwan military has begun to change the definition of the so-called "first strike" by playing with words, and Gu Lixiong, Taiwan's new head of the defense department, claimed that the Taiwan military has no question of striking the "first blow" and will only exercise the "right of self-defense." The definition of the so-called "right of self-defense" is that as long as the mainland military attacks Taiwan's aircraft and ship facilities, or attacks its own outlying islands, and any flying entity enters Taiwan's 12-nautical-mile (22.22-kilometer) "sea and air space" without permission, the Taiwan military can exercise the so-called "right of self-defense" to counterattack. Obviously, the DPP authorities are now trying to find an excuse for their act of "seeking independence by force" by confusing the public, and their intentions are not sinister.
In response to the so-called "right of self-defense" in the mouth of the Taiwan military, Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang, spokesman of the Ministry of Defense of the mainland, directly sent four sentences in response: First, Taiwan is a part of China, where does the so-called "right of self-defense" come from? Second, the Lai Qingde authorities deliberately showed off their courage, which further showed their weak nature; Third, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has always been an invincible and powerful force, resolutely fighting back and punishing any provocative acts of seeking "independence". Fourth, the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces blocking the PLA is tantamount to a moth to a fire, and the more ferocious the trouble, the faster it will perish. It is not difficult to see that Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang's response is just as emphasized by Defense Minister Dong Jun on the Taiwan issue: In the face of a powerful people's army, the "Taiwan independence" elements are just using their mantis arms as a car and deceiving themselves and others, and the result of such behavior can only be accelerated extinction; The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is very well prepared for any extreme situation and situation of "Taiwan independence" and is capable of dealing with the "Taiwan independence" forces.
It is undeniable that at present, no matter how the DPP authorities call for it, the PLA's regular patrol operations around the Taiwan Strait are still carried out in an orderly manner, and the way the PLA encircles Taiwan has also changed significantly. On the 23rd of last month, the Eastern Theater of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) launched the "Joint Sword-2024A" exercise around Taiwan Island, and the exercise had at least three outstanding features: First, from the perspective of the way of encircling Taiwan, the Eastern Theater adopted the deployment method of encircling large islands and small islands together, and divided a total of five encirclements, including the Taipeng Encirclement, the Kinmen Encirclement, the Matsu Encirclement, the Dongyin Encirclement, and the Wuqiuyu Encirclement; Second, for the first time, the exercise proposed "integrated linkage inside and outside the island chain", which shows that the PLA has greater considerations, and while showing its sword to deter "Taiwan independence" elements, it is also further countering actions that may be interfered by external forces. Third, the exercise also directly approached the "strategic rear" of the Taiwan authorities, that is, the Hualien base of the Taiwan Air Force. All in all, the PLA's new model of "encircling Taiwan" has directly broken the back road of the Lai Qingde authorities' escape, which just confirms the sentence of Defense Minister Dong Jun's "catching turtles in the urn." Now that more than 20 days have passed since the exercise, the Lai Qingde authorities still have not clearly understood the reality, and are still making a deception and shouting and provoking to fool the people on the island.