China’s Navy Wants to Make You Fear Its Power

The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), has been carrying out a number exercises this month. simulated attacks on Taiwan and Japan’s Okinawa prefecture. A Chinese carrier strike group, led by the PLAN’s first aircraft carrier Liaoning, has been operating several hundred miles southwest of Japan’s Kitadaitou Island.

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The PLAN warships had transited the Miyako Strait on December 15, and began exercises the next day – immediately following the news that Tokyo was increasing its defense spending. The drills include aircraft launches from the carrier as well as simulated missile launches from the PLAN’s Type 055 missile destroyers that targeted the Ryukyu Island chain as well as military assets in Okinawa, a source with the Chinese military told Taiwan News.

Japan’s new National Security Strategy has called for new missile systems – including U.S.-made Tomahawks – to be deployed on the islands in the region. From those locations, Japan’s Self-Defense Forces could be able to strike targets in North Korea As well as mainland China.

It has been suggested that Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered the exercises with the intention to undermine Japan’s security strategy and to show that any missiles located on the islands could be easily targeted by the PLAN.

Taiwan Threatened

During the exercises on Sunday, China also deployed 47 aircraft across the median line of the Taiwan Strait, the largest incursion of Taiwan’s air defense zone in several months. According to reportsIt included 42 J-10 and J-11 fighter jets and J-16 and Su-30 fighter planes. There were also two Y-8 maritime patrol and early warning aircrafts and a KJ500.

Total of seventy one Chinese aircraft took part in the weekend’s “strike drills” Around the

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