[Salon] Announcement by China's Eastern Command (Google Translation)

[Chas Freeman <cwfresidence@gmail.com>]

The Eastern Theater will carry out a series of joint military operations around Taiwan Island Colonel Shi Yi, spokesman for the Eastern Theater Command, said that starting from the evening of August 2, the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army will carry out a series of joint military operations around Taiwan Island, and conduct joint air and sea exercises in the sea and airspaces of the northern, southwestern and southeastern Taiwan Island. training, conducting long-range live ammunition firing in the Taiwan Strait, and organizing regular-guided fire testing in the eastern waters of Taiwan Island. This action is a solemn deterrent against the recent major escalation of the negative actions of the United States on the Taiwan issue, and a serious warning to the "Taiwan independence" forces seeking "independence".