The People's Liberation Army surrounded Taiwan Island in the early morning and rehearsed a 24-hour "take-off"? Cutting off the escape route of the "Taiwan independence" forces on the island has no time to react at all.
In the early morning of October 14, the "United Sword-2024B" exercise officially began! The Eastern Theater of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) organized a variety of forces such as naval, land, air, and rocket forces to encircle Taiwan Island and practice joint assault capabilities.
Our army's eastern theater of operations conducted a live-fire exercise
The Eastern Theater pointed out in the circular that the exercise was a powerful deterrent to "Taiwan independence" separatist acts and a legitimate and necessary action to safeguard national sovereignty and reunification.
Just a few days ago, when Lai Qingde delivered the so-called "Double 10" speech on the island, he vigorously advocated the fallacy of the "two countries," which aroused criticism from people inside and outside the island.
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) has once again shown with its actions that every time the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces escalate their provocations, the mainland's military countermeasures will go even further, and the shackles around the necks of the "Taiwan independence" elements will continue to tighten until all "Taiwan independence" separatist plots are completely smashed and the country's complete reunification is realized.
It is worth noting that compared with the previous two "Taiwan encirclement exercises," there are two differences in this exercise: First, the exercise area is getting closer and closer to Taiwan Island, and the focus is on the eastern part of Taiwan Island.
At present, the base camp of the DPP authorities is concentrated in Taipei, and four areas of the PLA exercise area have almost formed a "total encirclement" of Taipei, and they are "blockaded" in all directions from the northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest.
Comparison of the three "encirclement" exercises
This also means that once the situation in the Taiwan Strait changes, the PLA will take swift action to block the space for "Taiwan independence" elements to escape, cut off the Taiwan authorities' transportation and supply lines, and leave no chance for external forces to intervene.
The second difference is that this time the China Coast Guard also organized four ship formations, and on the 14th, they also participated in the "Ring Taiwan Island" patrol control.
On the one hand, this shows that the mainland coast guard is strengthening its law enforcement power in the waters around Taiwan Island; On the other hand, it also shows that the coast guard and the navy have reached a tacit understanding of a high degree of coordinated operations, and if the situation in the Taiwan Strait changes in the future, they may jointly participate in the battle to "take over Taiwan."
As a matter of fact, since the beginning of this year, the mainland coast guard has intensified its patrol and law enforcement in the waters near Kinmen, and the so-called "forbidden areas and restricted waters" of the Taiwan authorities have long been broken through by the mainland coast guard.
After the formation of regular patrols in the waters near Kinmen, the next step is naturally the Taiwan Strait.
Coast Guard formation patrol area
Now, the cooperation between the ship formation of our coast guard and the PLA in the "Joint Sword-2024B" exercise further shows that not only in the Taiwan Strait, but also around the entire island of Taiwan, our coast guard will form a normal patrol.
This is what really keeps the "Taiwan independence" elements awake at night and unable to fly.
Moreover, judging from the timing of the exercise, it is not difficult to find that the PLA has surrounded Taiwan without warning, and then launched an all-round exercise, highlighting three words: "fast, tight, and together." First, the action is rapid, so fast that the island cannot detect it; Second, the drill was compact, which made the "Taiwan independence" elements even more nervous; Third, it is uniform, and the multiple arms of the armed forces coordinate and cooperate in an orderly manner.
Moreover, judging from the entire duration of the exercise, if it is said that the PLA is conducting a "rehearsal for the takeover of Taiwan," then the change from a few days at the beginning, to two days, and then to one day now, shows that once changes occur in the Taiwan Strait, the PLA has full confidence and strength to complete the task of taking over Taiwan within 24 hours.
In the "Joint Sword-2024B" exercise, the PLA completed the assembly of sea, land, air and rocket forces within 24 hours, and then quickly rushed to the vicinity of Taiwan Island to deploy, and then launched the tasks of blockading key ports, striking at the sea, and seizing comprehensive sea and air supremacy, which fully tested our army's actual combat capability.
Senior Colonel Wu Qian, spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense of China
This is also in line with the words of Senior Colonel Wu Qian, spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense - on issues involving national sovereignty, no one should have the illusion that the PLA will not make a move, and if it does, it will inevitably be a heavy hammer blow!