Regarding the PLA's "Justice Mission-2025" live-fire military exercises against Taiwan, Taiwanese leader Lai Ching-te posted on the Facebook page of the Ministry of National Defense, "The government has properly handled the situation changes, please rest assured. I also ask the people to give the Coast Guard and military personnel the greatest support and encouragement. We will not escalate the conflict or provoke disputes, but we will firmly safeguard our national security and democratic and free way of life."
The spokesperson for the Taiwan defense department posted on Facebook stating that in response to today's Chinese military aircraft and ship movements, the Taiwan military is closely monitoring and carrying out immediate combat readiness drills, with all three branches of the military and coast guard personnel standing at attention!
According to reports by Taiwanese media, Taiwan had noticed signs of the PLA military exercises last week, such as specific ships and maritime police vessels crossing the Miyako Strait southward into the eastern waters off Taiwan, even deploying hundreds of ships within the first island chain, so Taiwan had anticipated the exercises to begin around Monday, and the Taiwan military had made preparations.
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