China has sent 13 aircraft and six warships into the Taiwan Strait in the past 24 hours, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said on May 10, adding that 10 aircraft entered the island’s air defense identification zone (Adiz). Tensions between the two sides have escalated especially after the inauguration of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, whom China accused of outdoing his predecessors “on the path to independence.” In response to Lai’s inauguration speech on May 20, the Chinese Communist Party held two days of military exercises around the island on May 23 and 24, calling them “punishment” for “secessionists” and a warning to “external forces” intervening on the island. the case.
The reference is above all to the United States, which, after Lai took office, sent two delegations to Taiwan to renew its support for the new administration in a context of tensions with Beijing. China also protested against the congratulations addressed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Lai on the eve of his inauguration, accusing him of having “sent a deeply wrong signal to separatist forces.”
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