Taiwan conducting anti-blockade drills amid recent PLA maneuvers: MND
ROC Central News Agency
06/13/2023 09:01 PM
Taipei, June 13 (CNA) Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense (MND) said Tuesday that it has been conducting drills in response to recent People's Liberation Army (PLA) exercises that practiced blockading Taiwan and nearby maritime routes.
Military experts said that recent reconnaissance drills and long-distance patrols undertaken by PLA aircraft and ships that passed through parts of the first island chain around the north and south of Taiwan were part of the PLA's anti-access/area denial exercises aimed at practicing how to gain control of Taiwan proper, the Taiwan Strait, the Bashi Channel and the Miyako Strait.
The issue was raised Tuesday during a weekly MND press briefing.
Major General Lin Wen-huang (林文皇) who is in charge of planning at the MND, explained that the military's espionage systems have run analyses of potential military invasions by the PLA, including possible blockading strategies. It has formulated anti-blockade and convoy strategies and been conducting drills to enhance the military's capabilities, Lin said.
MND spokesman Major General Sun Li-fang (孫立方) said at the briefing that the armed forces have been closely monitoring the situation in and around the Taiwan Strait and have run detailed analyses of the PLA's combat readiness maneuvers, including its joint combat readiness patrols.
He said the MND outlined several possible PLA agendas but would not go into details, adding that the ministry will do its best to develop different capabilities of the armed forces to boost its combat readiness.
(By Matt Yu and Sean Lin)
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