Chinas military exercises aimed at blockading Taiwan: defense ministry.China said Monday it is extending threatening military exercises surrounding Taiwan that have disrupted shipping and air traffic and substantially raised concerns about the potential for conflict in a region crucial to global trade.

The announcement further increases uncertainty in the crisis that developed last week with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.

The exercises will include anti-submarine drills, apparently targeting U.S. support for Taiwan in the event of a potential Chinese invasion, according to social media posts from the eastern leadership of China’s ruling Communist Party’s military arm, the People’s Liberation Army.

美國國會眾議院議長佩洛西訪問台灣引起中共憤怒，中國解放軍東部戰區宣布自8月4日中午12時至7日中午12時在台灣周邊6個區域進行實彈軍演。 8月6日中國大連海事局又發出航行警告，從8月8日零時起在渤海部分海域執行為期1個月的軍事任務，此段時間內禁止船隻駛入。媒體和專家認為，此次台海緊張局勢比上一次台海衝突區域更加廣泛，烈度更強，解放軍展示的武器也更加先進。.

美,中上一次因為台灣問題而引發緊張局勢升級還是在26年前的1996年，中國因為不滿白宮同意台灣的總統李登輝前往他的母校康奈爾大學訪問並發錶帶有政治意涵的演講而在台海舉行多輪實彈演習。

當時的美國國防部長（William Perry）曾把解放軍的演習稱為“魯莽與危險”的，並建議當時的克林頓總統向台海地區派遣了兩個航母戰鬥群。當時正在北京出席兩會的解放軍代表團代表中有人放話說要擊沉美國的航母，但是現實很骨幹，解放軍當時連美國航母在哪裡也根本摸不清楚，因此只好鳴金收兵，草草收場。打航母和區域拒止/反介入從此成為解放軍軍事現代化的一個中心議題。

時隔26年，北京再次因為不滿美國在台灣問題上的作為再次在台海舉行大規模實彈演習，導彈不僅落入台灣周邊海域，而且打到日本的專屬經濟區海域，多枚導彈還穿越了台北的天空，擊中台灣東部海域的目標。

美國出動兩個航母戰鬥群讓解放軍鳴金收兵的日子似乎一去不復返了

All sides would pay a heavy price if ever there were a military conflict over the island.

In the first three weeks after invading Taiwan, China sank two multibillion-dollar U.S. aircraft carriers, attacked American bases across Japan and on Guam, and destroyed hundreds of advanced U.S. jet fighters.

China’s situation was, if anything, worse. It landed troops on Taiwan and seized the island’s southern third, but its amphibious fleet was decimated by relentless U.S. and Japanese missile and submarine attacks and it couldn’t resupply its own forces. The capital, Taipei, was secure in Taiwanese hands, and Beijing was low on long-range ballistic missiles to counter America’s still-potent air and maritime power.

A daylong war game held at a Washington think tank simulated three weeks of combat if China were to launch an amphibious invasion of Taiwan.