PLA extends ‘Taiwan encirclement’ exercises with anti-submarine warfare

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Huge PLA drills around Taiwan really a message to US and allies, Chinese analysts say 

• Beijing’s fiery reactions aim to prevent US from driving Taiwan policy to brink of ‘a Ukraine war’, says Fudan University international studies dean
  
• PLA’s island blockade game likely to leave the US and allies at their wit’s end, Macau-based observer forecasts
  

Beijing is using war games and military and diplomatic responses to warn the United States and its allies against closer ties with Taiwan, but has managed to do so without triggering a full-blown conflict, Chinese observers noted.


“US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit [last week] pushed China to kick off a string of counter-attacks and measures against the US and Taiwan, which are all comprehensive and deliberate moves to prevent the US from driving their Taiwan policy to the brink of ‘a Ukraine war’,” Wu Xinbo, dean of the Institute of International Studies at Shanghai’s Fudan University, said.

The day after Pelosi’s departure, the People’s Liberation Army ramped up air and naval drills targeting Taiwan, before launching three days of full-scale, live-fire war games encircling the island that only wound down on Sunday.

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