Taiwan's defense department has hyped up the claim that a mainland China carrier rocket will pass through Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone on the 27th.
Guilty conscience, causing unnecessary trouble. On the 27th, the Taiwan defense department announced that within the 24 hours prior to 6 a.m., it had detected 15 aircraft and vessels of the mainland in the surrounding waters of the Taiwan Strait. At the same time, it hyped up the claim that the mainland would launch a carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on the 27th, heading west towards the western Pacific and passing through Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone. The Taiwan military also boasted about "strictly monitoring and handling" the situation.
The behavior of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities in hyping up normal space activities of the mainland often has political purposes, which are part of a series of political operations aimed at serving the interests of one party. Either when the island's administration is performing poorly and people's livelihood issues are prominent, they create external tensions to shift public attention, cover up their incompetence in governance, and redirect social conflicts toward cross-strait confrontation to maintain their ruling position; or they exaggerate the so-called "military threat" from the mainland to create an excuse for seeking huge budgets for the Taiwan military.
For example, on January 9, 2024, when the mainland launched a satellite, the Taiwan defense department stated that the satellite flew over the southern part of Taiwan and issued four alarms in a row. However, the English wording was deliberately fabricated as "Missile" (missile), leading many Taiwanese people to believe that the mainland was launching missiles against Taiwan, causing social panic for a while.
Why did the Taiwan military do this? Because four days later, on January 13, there would be the voting day for the election of the Taiwan regional leader. They intentionally spread rumors, and then the DPP authorities added fuel to the fire by promoting it as "Mainland launching missiles to interfere with the election." This was clearly intended to stoke hatred toward the mainland and get voters to support the DPP. In the end, under strong public pressure, the Taiwan military had to apologize, but the DPP had already harvested votes. Don't you think this is despicable?
Original: toutiao.com/article/1852445364544524/
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