China encircles Taiwan Military Drills to display barricades and precise cuts.

China ended three days of military drills around Taiwan on Monday, according to TAIPEI( Reuters ), saying they had practiced precision strikes, blockaded the island that Beijing claims as its own, and tested integrated military capabilities under actual combat conditions.

Taiwan responded to Beijing’s announcement by saying it would “never relax” its efforts to strengthen combat readiness and would closely monitor China‘s missile forces and movements of the Shandong aircraft carrier.

Following a meeting in Los Angeles with U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Taiwan’s’s President Tsai Ing – wen returned to Taipei, and Beijing started the drills on Saturday.

China has never renounced the use of force to bring the democratically-governed island under Beijing’s control. Taiwan‘s government strongly disputes China‘s claims and has denounced the drills.

The Taiwanese military claimed to have” fully tested” the abilities of various units under actual combat issues and” effectively completed” the exercises.

The P.L.A. ‘ s Eastern Theatre Command stated in a statement that the troops in the theater are constantly prepared to fight and are capable of fighting at any time, resolutely putting an end to any form of foreign interference or Taiwan independence separatism.

Chinese state media stated earlier on Monday that warships, nuclear-capable H-6 bombers, and other plane staged drills to” form a multi-directional island – encompassing blockade situation.”

The Shandong, according to the Eastern Theatre Command, had also participated in combat guards and had captured footage of fighters leaving the balcony of an aircraft carrier.

Taiwan has tracked the Shandong since last week in the Pacific Ocean.

Taiwan‘s defence ministry said that as of 1000 GMT on Monday it had spotted 12 Chinese ships and 91 military aircraft around the island, including carrier-based J-15 fighters flown from the Shandong.

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According to Japan’s’s defense department, the Shandong conducted air activities on Sunday in waters close to the Okinawan islands of Japan.

From Friday to Sunday, the carrier, three other vessels, and a support ship came within 230 kilometers( 143 miles ) of Japan’s’s Miyako island, according to the defense ministry. Jet soldiers and aircraft took off and touched down there 120 occasions.

According to a top public spokesman, Japan has been closely observing China’s’s military exercises in the Taiwan region” with great desire.”

Given how close the southern Chinese islands are to Taiwan, Japan has long been concerned about China’s’s military operations there.

When China staged war games in August of last year to resist the view of then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taipei, Chinese missiles landed within Japan’s’s exclusive economic area. The Asian island of Okinawa is home to a sizable American air force base.

The European Union already expressed matter on Monday, stating that any increase, accident, or use of force there would have significant global ramifications and that Taiwan’s’s situation should not be changed by force.

The US has stated that it is directly observing China’s’s training.

Russia, on the other hand, said on Monday that Beijing had every right to respond to repeated” provocations” against it and conduct military exercises around Taiwan. Russia has declared a” no limits” partnership with China.

” Lock on the destination.”

China‘s military simulated precision strikes against Taiwan in the second day of drills around the island on Sunday.

An H-6 bomb was seen flying in what the Eastern Theatre Command claimed to be the clouds north of Taiwan in a brief video posted on its WeChat accounts on Monday.

As the camera displays images from the cockpit, an unnamed voice declares,” The rockets are in good condition.”

Another voice says, displaying images of a weapon under the aircraft’s’s aircraft,” Start the fire management radar, switch on the goal.”

Then, despite the lack of rockets being fired, it depicts a pilot preparing the fire control switch for what it refers to as an” simulated episode” and pressing it.

Taiwan‘s military has repeatedly said it will respond calmly to China‘s drills and not provoke conflict.

On Monday, the defense ministry individually unveiled images of missile-armed fast attack boats at sea as well as mobile launchers for the Taiwanese Hsiung Feng anti-ship rockets at an undisclosed location.

On Monday, Hsiung Feng missiles were stationed close to a picturesque location in Pingtung County, Taiwan, where Reuters investigators observed soldiers keeping watch and tourists taking pictures.

With no indications of panic or disruption and human flights running as regular, life in Taiwan has continued as normal.

Tang Pao – hsiung, a retired man and retired retirement, said,” Most healthy people generally aren’t afraid, with the main reason being that anyone thinks that China will absolutely not consider savagery.”

Taiwan‘s stock market brushed off the tension, with the benchmark index closing up 0.3% on Monday.

However, as the drills reduced investors’ appetite for risk, China’s’s blue-chip CSI300 Index fell 0.5 % and the Shanghai Composite Index dipped 0.4 %.

( Reporting by Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee; additional reporting by Fabian Hamacher; Ann Wang and Ebrahim Harris in Pingtung, Taiwan; Liz Lee in Beijing; Jan Strupczewski in Brussels; and Tim Kelly and Satoshi Sugiyama in Tokyo; editing by Christopher Cushing, Jamie Freed, Gerry Doyle; Toby Chopra and Gareth Jones;)