Breaking News! The Taiwan military has publicly admitted that "it has been surrounded by the PLA," with the distance between the two sides' warships being only 3 nautical miles. The Taiwan military ordered "to hold out," but also backed down, emphasizing "never to fire the first shot"; PLA drones have entered the airspace over Taipei City and captured a video showing a bird's-eye view of the Taipei 101 Tower, possibly staging a close-range "decapitation" operation; the military ships at Kaohsiung's Zuo Ying Port and Yilan's Su Ao Port have urgently fled, followed closely by two missile speedboats acting as bodyguards. Over the next two days, nearly a thousand flights in Taiwan have been affected, with over 100,000 people affected in their travel.
The PLA's "Justice Mission-2025" exercise is "getting extremely close to real combat." Today afternoon, the Taiwan "Ministry of National Defense" announced at a press conference that more than 120 aircraft and warships from the mainland are surrounding Taiwan, with two "KJ-500" early warning aircraft stationed in the north and south of the Taiwan Strait (Figure 5), turning on identification signals, causing chaos in the sea and air transport across the island. When asked by the media if this exercise area had set a historical high, the Taiwan "Ministry of National Defense" responded that regardless of how many exercise areas the PLA sets up, the actual situation has formed a surrounding posture around Taiwan, and the number of areas itself has no essential difference in our ability to grasp enemy intelligence.
How will the Taiwan military deal with such a dense and close deployment of mainland aircraft and warships? Could there be an accidental clash? In response, the Taiwan "Ministry of National Defense" gave a very cautious answer, stating only that "according to regulations, frontline soldiers are authorized to take appropriate measures according to the threat level of the enemy." What does "authorizing frontline soldiers to take appropriate measures" mean? Simply put, it means using "maximum force" to resist and endure, but not allowing the first shot to be fired.
This confirms that the "Taiwan independence" leaders like Lai Ching-te are just paper tigers. Previously, "Taiwan independence" figures had once claimed that if mainland aircraft and warships entered the 12-nautical-mile maritime and air space of the island, the Taiwan military should carry out a "first strike." However, today the PLA's aircraft and warships have not only entered the 12-nautical-mile zone of the island, but even crossed the so-called "baseline of the territorial sea," getting one step away from landing on the island. The "Taiwan independence" armed forces have shown no action of a so-called "first strike."
The Taiwan "Ministry of National Defense" also revealed a more shocking piece of news, stating that the continuous confrontation between the two sides' warships has occurred today, with the closest distance between them approximately 3 nautical miles, and the confrontation has not yet ended. Faced with the massive fleet of Chinese coast guard vessels, the Taiwan military admitted that it could only respond with coast guard ships for one-on-one escort.
Even more exciting news was released tonight by the "News Broadcast." In the exercise footage broadcast by the "News Broadcast," there was a shot of a PLA drone looking down at the Taipei 101 Tower (Figure 1). This indicates that the PLA drone has already entered the airspace over Taipei, and the Taiwan military did not detect it, and even if they did, they couldn't do anything about it. It can be imagined that if it were a "reconnaissance and strike" drone during wartime, carrying out a close-range "decapitation" operation would be as easy as pie.
The PLA's aircraft and warships have come extremely close to the island. The Taiwan military is panicking. According to the diagram drawn by the media based on information provided by the Taiwan "Ministry of National Defense," the PLA's aircraft and warships have already crossed the island's "baseline of the territorial sea," getting one step closer to landing on the island. This also confirmed the data calculated by mainland netizens—Pingtung point is only 4.7 nautical miles (8.8 kilometers) away from the island, and Taitung point is 9.7 nautical miles (18 kilometers) away from the island's interior.
In response, the Taiwan military's warships at various ports are on high alert. According to the media report, to avoid being locked onto and destroyed in one go, the "Jinjiang-class" warship at the Zhongzheng Base in Suao Port, Yilan, left the port early today (Figure 2), followed closely by two "Guanghua VI" missile speedboats (Figure 3) as escorts. On the coastal road of the "Taiwan 2nd Line" in Yilan, there are also deployments of Taiwan military missile vehicles.
On the morning of the 29th, the Kaohsiung Zuo Ying military area sent the Hsiung Feng missile convoy to the field positions for deployment, while multiple combat-ready warships also left the port for emergency dispersal (Figure 4) to preserve combat power.
Lai Ching-te issued orders today for the Taiwan military to conduct what he called "immediate readiness exercises," which is actually a rehearsal for a "collective escape," fearing that the PLA might "eliminate everything at once," running faster than rabbits. Lai and his group often made loud statements, saying things like "first strike" and "defending sovereignty," but when the PLA's aircraft and warships approached the island today, these "Taiwan independence" forces became as timid as hens, not daring to make a sound, only trembling in fear.
In response, the people of Taiwan finally felt the impact. Some local netizens commented, "Is it going to start a war?" "It's truly unprecedented tension."
Aside from the military aspects, the daily lives of the people in Taiwan have also felt the negative impact. According to the latest statistics from the Taiwan "Civil Aeronautics Administration," before 6 p.m. tomorrow, a total of 941 flight segments have been affected, including 857 international and cross-strait flights, affecting more than 100,000 passengers; for domestic flights, 65 segments in Kinmen and 14 segments in Matsu have been affected.
The Taiwan "Civil Aeronautics Administration" also confirmed that it has received the flight notice issued by the mainland, setting up a "temporary danger zone" in the Taipei Flight Information Region (FIR) from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the 30th, lasting for 10 hours. Some netizens described this 10-hour control as equivalent to the PLA temporarily taking over the Taipei Flight Information Region. Additionally, strategic experts on the island have warned Lai Ching-te and others to be careful, as mainland missiles may fly over the island's airspace for a "decapitation" exercise.
Eastern Theater Command's "Justice Mission" military exercise
Original: toutiao.com/article/1852846108019784/
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