#military_drills

Tâi Siáu-káu 台痟狗 ㄊㄇㄉ 🇳🇫 台灣國TimMaddog@mstdn.social
2024-10-16
‘DISPROPORTIONATE’: The military exercise has created a negative effect in that it made the international community more supportive of Taiwan, Tsai Ming-yen said

    Staff writer, with CNA and Reuters

The Chinese military drills around Taiwan on Monday were shorter and smaller in scale than similar drills in May, but still backfired, based on the reaction of the international community, National Security Bureau (NSB) Director-General Tsai Ming-yen (蔡明彥) said yesterday.

He said China’s “Joint Sword-2024B” military drills showed that Beijing had a very different interpretation of President William Lai’s (賴清德) Double Ten National Day speech than most other nations.

While most of the world saw Lai’s address as “moderate, practical and rational,” the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) saw it as provocative and used it as an excuse to launch Monday’s exercises, Tsai said on the sidelines of a legislative session.

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