The Chinese military started its large-scale two-day exercise around the island of Taiwan on Thursday, 24 May, just 3 days after Lai Ching-te was sworn in as the new president of Taiwan, whom the Chinese government calls a “separatist”.
Although China considers Taiwan a part of its territory and has repeatedly emphasized the need for Taipei to return to the mainland, Taiwan says that it is the people who should decide about their future.
The recent presidential elections in Taiwan were held in the shadow of China’s threats, and the new president of the country asked Beijing to stop the threats in his inauguration speech on Monday and emphasized that the two countries are not subservient to each other, and the Chinese authorities, however, rejected these words. condemned and called it “shameful”.
Meanwhile, Global Press reported that China will attack Taiwan at the beginning of June.
China in a maneuver called punishment of Taiwan, all Its islands are surrounded and the American forces are also in Taiwan are on high alert.
