Taiwan Defence Spokesman Condemns Chinese Drills as Military Planes Fly Out of Hsinchu Airbase

Military planes were seen taking off and landing from an airbase in Hsinchu, Taiwan on Thursday (May 23), after China’s People's Liberation Army (PLA) started joint military drills, in areas around Taiwan.

China launched "punishment" drills around Taiwan in what it said was a response to "separatist acts," sending up heavily armed warplanes and staging mock attacks as state media denounced newly inaugurated President Lai Ching-te.

A spokesperson from Taiwan’s defence ministry said the PLA’s exercise was an “irrational provocation” and has “jeopardised regional peace and stability”.

The exercises, in the Taiwan Strait and around groups of Taiwan-controlled islands that sit next to the Chinese coast, come just three days after Lai took office, a man Beijing detests as a "separatist."

China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has denounced Lai's inauguration speech on Monday, in which he called on China to stop its threats and said the two sides of the strait were "not subordinate to each other."
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