China keeps up pressure on Taiwan with 4th day of drills

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

BEIJING (AP) — China said Sunday it carried out its fourth consecutive day of military drills in the air and sea around Taiwan in the wake of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-ruled island, despite international calls to calm the tensions.

The People’s Liberation Army said the exercises focused on testing its long-range air and ground strikes. It did not say if it will continue the drills after Sunday.

Taiwan said that it continued to detect several batches of Chinese aircraft, ships and drones operating around the Taiwan Strait, which separates the island and mainland China, and “simulating attacks on the island of Taiwan and our ships at sea.”

Taiwan’s official Central News Agency meanwhile reported that Taiwan’s army will conduct live-fire artillery drills in southern Pingtung County on Tuesday and Thursday, in response to the Chinese exercises.



A man uses a magnifying glass to read a newspaper headline reporting on Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) conducting military exercises, at a stand in Beijing, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that China should not hold hostage talks on important global matters such as the climate crisis, after Beijing cut off contacts with Washington in retaliation for U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan earlier this week. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)


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[Chainfire]

1. China is throwing a temper tantrum for lack of practical recourse.

[oldsoftie]

8. its all they know; childish. The whole" Taiwan isn't a country!" thing is just like a child

[louis-t]

2. If tfg had done this, repugs would call him a hero.

They love it when the fat orange blob puts his thumb in the eye of anyone in his path.

[paleotn]

3. Probably as much for internal consumption as anything else....

Their economy wasn't great before the covid lockdowns. Now it's far worse. Much of that because of their gross mismanagement of covid. They took the diametrically opposite approach than Trump and it's just as screwed up. When faced with doing something OTHER than "grow at breakneck pace", Beijing has royally screwed the pooch.

[AZLD4Candidate]

4. To save face, it's better to keep going down the rabbit hole than to admit even a small mistake

Welcome to modern China under the CCP. That BS worms it way through all parts of the culture there.

CCP has completely backed itself into a corner.

[bahboo]

5. sounds like a waste of a helluva lot of money...

[C Moon]

6. Bullies.

[dalton99a]

7. Keep drilling

Hope they accidentally shoot themselves