Incident during Beijing maneuvers: Taiwan arrests Chinese “invader”.

Incident during Beijing’s maneuvers
Taiwan arrests Chinese ‘invader’

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China is launching another military exercise around Taiwan. The Taiwanese coast guard arrests a Chinese man on an island administered by Taipei. It cannot be ruled out that the incident represents an “intrusion into the gray area,” the authority said.

In the midst of a large-scale Chinese military maneuver around Taiwan, the Taiwanese coast guard says it has arrested a Chinese man on a small island off the coast of China. It is “not excluded” that the incident was related to the military exercises and represented an “intrusion into the gray zone,” the coast guard said.

The Coast Guard used a formulation that describes enemy maneuvers that cannot be considered a direct act of war. The arrested man arrived illegally in a rubber dinghy to Menghu, a small island that is part of the Kinmen Islands administered by Taiwan and is located just a few kilometers off the Chinese port city of Xiamen.

Pictures released by the Taiwan Coast Guard showed the man being taken onto a ship. The coast guard said the suspect and his boat were taken to Kinmen. The coast guard has “increased its vigilance.” Critical locations would be constantly monitored and targets at sea observed in “real time.”

China launches large-scale military exercise

Because of the large-scale Chinese military exercise, the Taiwanese president met with high-ranking representatives of his country’s security authorities. China is currently holding a large-scale military exercise around Taiwan. The exercise called “Joint Sword-2024B” is about testing “joint operational capabilities,” said the Ministry of Defense in Beijing.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported that “fighter jets, bombers and other modern fighter aircraft” were flying over the Taiwan Strait. At the same time, several destroyers and frigates took part in the maneuver. It is China’s fourth large-scale military exercise around Taiwan in two years. At the same time, the Chinese coast guard sent four fleets for “inspections”.

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