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Taiwan says Chinese movements 'abnormal', flags amphibious drills
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Taiwan has reported an increase in such activity during the past week, as dozens of fighters, drones, bombers and other aircraft, as well as warships, have operated nearby.
China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has in recent years carried out many such drills around the island, seeking to assert its sovereignty claims and pressure Taipei.
“Our initial analysis is that they are doing joint drills in September, including land, sea, air and amphibious,” Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng told reporters at parliament.
The comments came after an unusual statement from the defence ministry on Thursday that it was keeping watch on Chinese activities near Dacheng Bay in the southern province of Fujian, facing Taiwan.
Those exercises featured civilian ships with equipment practising “dockless unloading”, to simulate a situation in which they might need to land after port facilities are knocked out of action or destroyed, Chieh said.
However, China would be hard pressed to carry out a frontal, amphibious invasion of the island, given geographic difficulties, a senior U.S. defence official told Congress on Tuesday.
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