On October 13, the Eastern Theater of the People's Liberation Army released a battle patrol video "Pillow and Wait for the Dan", with the accompanying text "Head resting on the waves, holding the sword, leaning on the sky, and the horse", in the video appeared the equipment training pictures of the PLA navy, land and air force and rocket forces, including J-20, Dongfeng missiles and Type 075 amphibious assault ships.
Advocating the fallacy of "Taiwan independence" separatism
It is worth noting that the timing of the release of this video by the Eastern Theater was quite delicate, just after Taiwan regional leader Lai Qingde recently openly repeated the "Taiwan independence" separatist fallacy in his speech, Lai Qingde's move was immediately severely refuted by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and many people of insight on the island.
Prior to this, many media on the island had already warned that if Lai Qingde chooses to deliberately provoke the mainland at a sensitive moment, it is very likely to provoke a military response from the mainland against the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces, such as holding a military exercise similar to the "Joint Sword-2024B". The mainland has made it clear that every provocation against "Taiwan independence" elements will prompt the mainland's countermeasures to go further.
"Joint Sword-2024B" military exercise
Therefore, the Eastern Theater chose to release the combat training video at this time, which may be seen as a signal that the PLA's "United Sword-2024B" military exercise is about to start. In this military exercise, the PLA Navy, Army, Air Force, and Rocket Force and other arms of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) came out to carry out training around the Taiwan Strait and its surrounding islands, and there were three highlights:
1. "Pillow and wait" is a strong deterrent
On the eve of the exercise, the Eastern Theater released a video with the theme of "being ready for war at all times and ready to fight at any time." In the background, the four big characters of "Pillow and Wait" were prominently displayed, and the last word "Dan" was cleverly presented in the image of Taiwan Island, sending a strong deterrent signal to the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces.
In view of the separatist remarks made by Lai Ching-te, the leader of the Taiwan authorities, on 10 October, which triggered a great deal of hype from Taiwan's security departments, the current military exercise is undoubtedly a direct response to his provocation. Compared with the previous "2024A" military exercise, this "2024B" not only has more subjects, such as focusing on the exercise of Haikou combat readiness patrol, the closure and control of key port areas, and the sea and land strikes, etc., and from the schematic diagram, the encirclement density is almost "airtight", showing a significant improvement in the PLA's ability to strike the entire island of Taiwan.
If you compare today's B with the previous A, you will find that many of the "empty areas" of our previous exercise this time are the "empty areas" of the previous exercise, that is to say, today's exercise basically covers the entire coastline of western Taiwan, and most of the coastline in the east, in addition to the so-called "outlying islands" of Taiwan such as Matsu, Dongyin, and Wuqiu, in fact, these are the islands of Fujian Province.
Second, there is a "big gap" in the southeast?
It is worth noting that this military exercise seems to have left a "big gap" in the southeast, but in fact it is a move by our aircraft carrier Liaoning to sail into the vicinity of the Bass Strait and plan to enter the western Pacific. This move, in conjunction with the military exercises, is aimed at sending a message to the Taiwan authorities about "foreign denial," that is, not to expect that someone will come to help, and at the same time to warn United States not to have any illusions in the Taiwan Strait.
The Eastern Theater released the news of the exercise in Chinese and English at 5 a.m., with the intention of directly informing the United States top leadership that our military would achieve reunification in just five hours. This is not only a test of our military's combat readiness and cross-unit coordination capability, but also a firm response to the provocative acts of the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces.
Nowadays, the emergence of the joint sword B exercise also reflects that our plan to encircle the platform, the trapped platform and the poor platform has long been formed, and it has gradually become the norm.
If the previous exercises and training were of an emergency nature, then the launch of today's joint sword series of exercises means that the normalization system of the PLA's formal military forces has been thoroughly involved. Today, in addition to dispatching a formation of coast guard ships to patrol around Taiwan Island, more large warships have arrived on Taiwan Island.
On the one hand, we are carrying out the exercise around Taiwan to deter the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces, and on the other hand, to tell the world that we are fully capable of handling the Taiwan Strait issue well.
The exercise we are conducting around the Taiwan Strait is not a simple exercise, but a closed exercise area, a live-fire exercise, which means that no ship can approach and dare not approach.
Who is the most affected behind this? Naturally, it is a ship that has "deals" with the Taiwan authorities. After all, our training time is not fixed, and we will not be notified in advance when we want to train.
This time, the joint sword B was launched in the early hours of the morning and ended at about 5 o'clock, and behind this is to let the Taiwan authorities know that if you provoke once, then we will push forward one step further, and the impact behind this is not only Taiwan's economy, but also US and Western capital.
3. "6-to-6" territory-wide coverage
In the intention of this military demonstration, Taiwan's six major cities from south to north are all marked, and the red boxes of the exercise and training areas correspond to the major cities, ports and military bases on Taiwan Island. Among them, Taiwan's four most important military ports -- Keelung Military Port, Zuoying Military Port, Magong Military Port, and Su-Austrian Military Port, as well as two important economic and trade ports, were all covered by our army's current exercise. This fully demonstrates that our army has complete confidence and ability to realize the reunification of the motherland, and that no force can stop the pace of the Chinese nation's great rejuvenation and national reunification. This military exercise is not only a deterrent to the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces, but also a demonstration to the world that we are fully capable of handling the Taiwan Strait issue well.
The "pragmatic war detonators" are bringing Taiwan into a deeper precarious
Since coming to power, Taiwan regional leader Lai Ching-te has been inconsistent in his words and deeds; on the surface he advocates "peace" and "dialogue," but in fact he is using all his forces to actively prepare for war, pushing Taiwan to an even more dangerous brink, and tying the people to the chariot of "Taiwan independence." The harmfulness of its "Taiwan independence" behavior has become increasingly prominent, making the current situation of Taiwan's fierce war more and more serious, and it seems that it is no longer possible to find an effective "stop loss point." Lai Qingde not only bears the old name of "pragmatic 'Taiwan independence' worker", but now he has added a new name -- "pragmatic war detonator".
As soon as he took office in May this year, Lai Ching-te tore off his disguise, revealed his true face as a "Taiwan independence" element, and spared no effort to promote the "battlefieldization of Taiwan" and the "arming of civilians." He set up the so-called "Whole-of-Society Defense Resilience Committee" to train 400,000 people to be relied on across the island; Many palaces and temples in Taiwan have even been asked to store ammunition in case of emergency; Lai Qingde also trumpeted how to prepare evacuation materials and learn first aid measures and other wartime preparations in the program; In addition, when attending the event, he openly claimed that "Taiwan will absolutely never sign a peace agreement," completely ignoring the general expectations of the people on the island for peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and peaceful coexistence between the two sides of the strait, as well as the grim reality that Taiwan's young people's willingness to join the army is low and the number of volunteers has dropped sharply.
Military spending in Taiwan has skyrocketed
Since the DPP authorities came to power, Taiwan's regional defense budget has increased year by year, nearly doubling in 2024 compared with eight years ago; After Lai took office, Taiwan's defense budget for next year will reach a new high, totaling NT$647 billion. The hard-earned money of these Taiwan people will be mainly used to buy more weapons from United States, which shows that Lai Qingde knows very well that "Taiwan independence" is incompatible with peace in the Taiwan Strait, and that separatism means war. However, Lai Qingde, who is weak and cold-hearted, still chooses evil and is stubborn, and constantly drinks to quench his thirst. In this regard, the public opinion deputies in the Taiwan region bitterly criticized Lai's every action as if he wanted to go to war. There are also netizens on the island who exclaimed, "It's terrible, choose a Lai Qingde who will bring us into the war." ”
From "the Republic of China is in Taiwan" to "the Republic of China is Taiwan," and then to "the two sides of the strait are two countries and are not subordinate to each other" and "the People's Republic of China has no right to represent Taiwan," Lai Qingde's so-called "Double Ten" speech shows that his "independence" nature is getting stronger and stronger, and his provocation is getting stronger and stronger. He used the "new two-state theory" to package "Taiwan independence," constantly propagated separatist ideas, and incited hostile confrontation between the two sides of the strait, thus bringing more and more "poisonous" harm to Taiwan. In the past few days, worries and opposition to Lai's "Double 10" speech that it will lead the Taiwan to war abound.
From "embattled" to "self-defeating"
Ma Ying-jeou, former leader of the Taiwan region, severely criticized the "new two-state theory" put forward by Lai Ching-te, pointing out that his adherence to the "Taiwan independence" stance will push Taiwan's 23 million people to the brink of danger. Zhu Lilun, chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang, also stressed that "Taiwan independence" is an unworkable road, which will only bring difficulties to Taiwan and meet with widespread opposition from the international community.
Although he is well aware that the "new two-state theory" will arouse strong resentment on the mainland, Lai Qingde is still stubborn and keeps repeating this position, which is obviously a deliberate provocation with the intention of misleading and shaping the identity of the people on the island. Judging from Lai Qingde's recent successive actions, his so-called "preparing for war to avoid war" not only cannot avoid war, but may become a catalyst for the outbreak of war.
Over the past few years, every time the "Taiwan independence" forces have provoked, our countermeasures have been pushed further and intensified. These countermeasures are justified, reasonable, reasonable, and legitimate, and show that there will be no tolerance or tolerance for "Taiwan independence." Since Lai Qingde has chosen to be the "detonator of a pragmatic war," he is standing on the opposite side of the common interests of the compatriots on both sides of the strait and the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation, and he must be prepared to be "embattled" and even "bring about his own destruction."