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.China navy 094 SSBN.so great.

傳聞中國海軍山東號航空母艦,芳蹤出現於台灣省南端的墾丁外海,被台灣的漁船發現,以及艦載機J-15.起降,但是台灣漁民無法偵測到海底下面有中國094-SSBN.核子戰略潛艦及093/B.SSN.核子攻擊型潛艦,為山東號航空母艦護航,美國軍事衛星全程監測拍照存證.

China navy & Air forces military drill around Taiwan strait.

中國海軍與空軍實施環繞台灣實兵實彈軍事演習畫面曝光.\

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China navy 093-SSN..so great.

.台灣海軍監視中國海軍如此而已.

Tracking China’s April 2023 Military Exercises around Taiwan.

This feature analyzes China’s military exercises and other major activities after Taiwan President Tsai-Ing-wen’s transit and meeting with Speaker McCarthy. For details on her transit and the history of presidential transits, explore this ChinaPower feature.

In late March and early April 2023, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen transited through the United States and held an in-person meeting with Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) began increasing its activities as Tsai was in the United States and particularly after her meeting with McCarthy. On April 8, the day after Tsai arrived back in Taiwan, the PLA announced and launched large-scale military exercises around Taiwan. These exercises are more significant than China’s responses to past Taiwan presidential transits, and they are reminiscent of the unprecedented PLA response to then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan in August 2022.

In contrast to China’s major show of military force, Beijing has taken relatively less direct diplomatic and economic measures to punish Taiwan and the United States since April 2. China issued four strong statements denouncing the transit and meeting with McCarthy on April 6 and sanctioned a handful of U.S. and Taiwan entities afterwards. On April 10, China signaled desire to deepen economic and other exchanges with Taiwan. What remains to be seen is how former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou’s trip to China will impact domestic politics in Taiwan—a trip that was likely encouraged and at least partially orchestrated by Beijing. For example, Beijing likely welcomed Ma’s remarks to the press on April 7 after he returned to Taiwan – Ma characterized Taipei’s current leadership and policy as one leading Taiwan towards danger and war and warned that Taiwan has a choice between peace and war.

This page tracks and analyzes key activities China has taken so far, starting April 2, the week of Tsai’s meeting with Speaker McCarthy. The timelines below reflect information available as of noon on April 13, 2023.1 This page will be updated with additional analysis and new information as it becomes available. Use the table of contents below to jump to a section of the page..

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Chinas Shandong carrier testing ability to blockade Taiwan:

.Experts assert that Chinas Shandong aircraft carrier exercises are testing whether the Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) can impose a blockade on Taiwan without the use of missiles, seriously threatening Taiwans ability to protect its east coast.

Analysts believe Chinese carrier battle groups could threaten eastern Taiwans security.CHINA NAVY SO GREAT.

Shandong 17 Chinas aircraft carrier Shandong (CV-17).move to Taiwan join the military drill.

Shandong aircraft carrier. (Weibo photo)

Illustration of a big red dragon claw holding a small ballot box with the Taiwanese flag on it as the other claw, which has the yellow stars of the Chinese flag on it, prepares to flick the ballot box 中國龍爪勢在必行收回台灣省,完成統一的歷史任務. .

中國5星大元帥習近平,親自指揮發號司令,20230408-10.中國,"利劍出鞘",實兵實彈的環繞台灣省的軍事演習,將驗證出孫子兵法的真實性與執行效果?.

如此一來他的皇帝夢,就可以說明高枕無憂?..

中國空軍及海軍齊頭並進,穿越台灣海峽中線執行代號,

"利劍出鞘",的實兵實彈軍事演習..

China to conduct regular military drills east of Taiwan Strait median line,

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.20230408-10.台灣地區扔然燈紅酒綠,老百姓過屬於自己的日子,今朝有酒今朝醉,有朝1日易幟兩岸統一,無論是武統解放或是和平統一,頂多宵禁3天,過後一如往常,街頭巷尾人來人往,夜市攤販生意興隆,鈔票數到手抽筋,人民幣比較值錢是真的.

.傳聞中國大皇帝習近平,在收復台灣省,完成國際統一大業之後的次年,訪問巡台灣省任命佈達新任的台灣省省長及新任的省議員以及新任的各縣市長,(南投縣中興新村省議會大樓)至今保存良好隨時再度啟用,服務台灣省的老百姓,習近平將逛遊夜市,品嚐台灣小吃但仔麵,是否與他當年任職福建省的省委時,吃的味道一樣?. 10 of the best night markets in Taiwan - travel guide - CK Travels

China begins three days of military drills in Taiwan Strait

PLA announces United Sharp Sword exercises amid Chinese anger over meeting between Taiwan’s President and US House Speaker.

.CHINA AIR FORCE SO GREAT. Handout of Chinese PLA Eastern Theatre Command drill

Chinas military said it had “successfully completed” three days of military drills around Taiwan on Monday, with air and sea blockade training involving an aircraft carrier and simulated strikes by warplanes carrying live ammunition under “actual combat condition.

. Air Defense and Missile Command of Taiwan Air Force takes part in a military exercise, at an undisclosed location in Taiwan in this handout picture provided by Taiwan Defence Ministry and released on April 9, 2023. (Reuters)

Air Defense and Missile Command of Taiwan Air Force takes part in a military exercise, at an undisclosed location in Taiwan in this handout picture provided by Taiwan Defense Ministry and released on April 9, 2023..3

.CHINA AIR FORCE SO GREAT.

PLAAF Chengdu J-10 fighter jets fly in formation. (Reuters photo) 國際戰略專家分析認為:美國及西方國家的新聞美媒體,大肆炒作中國即將攻擊台灣的事項,以及近日來中國在台灣四周的區域,進所謂的實兵實彈軍事演習"利劍出鞘" 其中新聞媒體注焦中國海軍及空軍,正式跨越或是穿越所謂的海峽中線,進行實兵實彈的軍事演習,打破將近74年海峽雙方的約定?

換句話說就是,中國對於收回台灣的"特別軍事行動"已經展開,而且正式公告國際台灣是中國的一個省,必須收回,完成國家統一,並且警告美國及西方國家切勿干涉中國內政及主權.

.中國模擬攻打台灣的軍棋推演畫面..

台灣可能性主動攻擊中國?

美國利誘台灣先行開火,台灣被引誘加入戰爭遊戲,形成亞洲版的烏克蘭? 似乎是愈來愈進喇...

War game suggests Chinese invasion of Taiwan would fail at a huge cost to US, Chinese and Taiwanese militaries.

一位不願透露出姓名的北約退役將領,形容就是中國與美國進行式的紅藍對抗的實兵實彈的軍事演習,其目的就是準備將來的某日,中國與美國爭奪台灣時所發生的戰爭,勢所難免勢,在必行的戰爭,其結果可想而知,台灣勢必遭受到中國及美國的衝擊城門失火遭受到池魚之殃,美國目前派遣尼米茲號航空母艦戰鬥群趕赴台灣助戰?

因為中國山東號航空母艦戰鬥群已經於台灣南端的墾丁外海,靠近台灣舉行軍事演習,美國遠道而來中國以逸待勞,中國此次採取環繞台灣四周的海域及空域舉辦實兵實彈的軍事演習,以後可能每季都至少要舉辦一次,其目的之一就是宣示維護主權,讓台灣的台獨團體與個人知道,真理是在大炮的射程範圍內,弱是依賴外國勢力幕後撐腰將來的下場結果可想而知.

中國採取孫子兵法:上兵伐謀,其次伐交,其下攻城,顯示出中國是以3種模式,同時進行,令美國及西方國家瞭解,中國真正的意圖,不打迷糊仗,不釋出煙霧彈.?.

中國人的家務事,無需要美國與西方國家插手干涉,否則就不好說喇.

孫子曰：凡用兵之法,全國為上,破國次之,全旅為上,破旅次之,全卒為上,破卒次之,全伍為上,破伍次之。是故百戰百勝,非善之善者也,不戰而屈人之兵,善之善者也。

Sunzi said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemys country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them. Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemys resistance without fighting..

.但是:美國與西方國家,永遠無法澈底的瞭療解,孫子兵法"

始計:	兵者,詭道也。故能而示之不能,用而示之不用,近而示之遠,遠而示之近。利而誘之,亂而取之,實而備之,強而避之,怒而撓之,卑而驕之,佚而勞之,親而離之。攻其無備,出其不意,此兵家之勝,不可先傳也。

.All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away;when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. If he is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.

US CVN-68 NIMITZ CVN/CBG.move to Taiwan ?.

............................... Carrier USS Nimitz Operating in the South China Sea - USNI News USA.Aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68).vs China CV-17.CBG................

Shandong 17 . Shandong aircraft carrier. (Weibo photo)

A Taiwanese navy soldier is monitoring China Shandong aircraft carrier at the sea, on the east of Taiwan on April 5..2023.

Is there wher to show Taiwan strait median line ?.

.US navy will join the military drill for Taiwan? American missile destroyer the USS Ralph Johnson (foreground), seen sailing through the Philippine Sea in June 2020, is based at US Navy centre Yokosuka, near Tokyo

Forty-two Chinese fighter jets briefly crossed the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait on Saturday as China began drills around Taiwan in anger at President Tsai Ing-wens meeting with the speaker of the US House of Representatives.

The three-day drills, announced the day after Tsai returned from the United States, had been widely expected after China condemned her Wednesday meeting with Speaker Kevin McCarthy in Los Angeles.

China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Taiwans government strongly objects to Chinas claims.

Beijings announcement also came just hours after China hosted a visit by senior European leaders.

The Peoples Liberation Army said it had started the combat readiness patrols and "Joint Sword" exercises around Taiwan, having said earlier it would be holding them in the Taiwan Strait and to the north, south and east of Taiwan "as planned".

"This is a serious warning to the Taiwan independence separatist forces and external forces collusion and provocation, and it is a necessary action to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity," the Chinese armys Eastern Theater Command said in a statement.

Taiwans Defence Ministry said on Saturday morning it spotted 42 Chinese fighters - J-10s, J-11s and J-16s, crossing the median line that normally serves as an unofficial batter between the two sides, as well as eight Chinese ships.

China was using Tsais US visit "as an excuse to carry out military exercises, which has seriously damaged regional peace, stability and security", the ministry said in a statement.

"The military will respond with a calm, rational and serious attitude, and will stand guard and monitor in accordance with the principles of not escalating nor disputes to defend national sovereignty and national security."

Chinese state media released what it said was footage of the drills, set to stirring martial music and showing warships at sea and fighter jets doing airborne refuelling. Reuters could not authenticate when or where the material was shot.

SITUATION AS EXPECTED

There was no broader sense of alarm in Taiwan about the drills, where people are long accustomed to Chinese threats.

China had threatened unspecified retaliation if the meeting with McCarthy - second in line to succeed the US president, after the vice president - were to take place. Beijing staged war games around Taiwan, including live-fire missile launches, in August after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei.

A senior Taiwan official familiar with security planning in the region told Reuters the aircraft had only crossed the median line briefly, while the ships had already turned back, unlike in August when vessels from both navies engaged in stand-offs.

The situation was "as expected" and manageable, and Taiwans government has rehearsed various scenarios for its response, the person said on condition of anonymity, as they were not authorised to speak to the media.

Reuters reporters in a seaside area near Fuzhou, opposite the Taiwan-controlled Matsu islands, saw a Chinese warship firing shells onto a drill area on Chinas coast, part of drills announced by China late on Friday.

Tsai, hosting a lunch on Saturday with a visiting US lawmaker delegation, led by Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said she looked forward to strengthening security cooperation with the United States.

"I would like to reiterate that the people of Taiwan love democracy and seek peace," she said, without directly mentioning the drills in comments before television cameras.

Tsai has repeatedly offered talks with China but has been rebuffed as the government views her as a separatist. She says only Taiwans people can decide their future.

The Peoples Daily, the official newspaper of Chinas ruling Communist Party, said in a commentary on Saturday that the government has "a strong ability to thwart any form of Taiwan independence secession".

"All countermeasures taken by the Chinese government belong to Chinas legitimate and legal right to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity," it said.

DIPLOMACY AND DRILLS

Unlike in August, China has yet to announce whether it will also stage missile drills. When China announced the previous drills, it published a map showing which maritime areas near Taiwan it would be firing into.

The security source said April is when China typically carries out military exercises.

Taiwanese officials had expected a less severe reaction to the McCarthy meeting, given it took place in the United States, but they had said they could not rule out the possibility of China staging more drills.

Chinas announcement came hours after French President Emmanuel Macron left China, where he met President Xi Jinping and other senior leaders. Macron urged Beijing to talk sense to Russia over the war in Ukraine.

European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen, also in China this week to meet Xi, said stability in the Taiwan Strait was of paramount importance.

Xi responded by saying that expecting China to compromise on Taiwan was "wishful thinking", according to Chinas official reading of the meeting.

Chinas defence ministry, as well as carrying the announcement of the drills around Taiwan, showed pictures on its home page of Xi meeting Macron and von der Leyen.

The Taiwan security source said Chinas recent efforts to charm foreign leaders were in vain after the announcement of the drills.

"Upon the announcement of drills in the strait, all those efforts have vanished overnight and become a wasted effort."

.China navy so great..

A Chinese warship sails during a military drill near Fuzhou, Fujian province, near the Taiwan-controlled Matsu Islands that are close to the Chinese coast on 8 April, 2023..

.Taiwan tanks MILITARY DRILL show at 20230409.for war with CHINA ?

\Why Taiwan matters to the world ?"

Should the United States defend Taiwan? This is not an abstract debate. Over the weekend, Beijing simulated bombing raids on the island, while its navy encircled Taiwan.

In response to the steady escalation of Chinese military pressure on the island, President Joe Biden has promised - four times - that the US would defend Taiwan from an attack by China.

For some in America, Biden’s pledges are little short of madness. Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute, a think-tank, complains that “most [American] policymakers are prepared to risk national suicide to protect Taiwan”. Why should war-weary America threaten to fight China, another nuclear-armed power, to defend an island of 24 million people that lies roughly 100 miles off the Chinese coast?

Scepticism about defending Taiwan is even more pronounced in parts of Europe. Flying back from a visit to China last week, President Emmanuel Macron implied that France would not lift a finger to protect the island. Discussing Taiwan, he told Politico that the “great risk” for Europe is getting “caught up in crises that are not ours”.

In reality, few expect European militaries to get directly involved in a conflict over Taiwan. But the attitudes of European politicians such as Macron matter, since they will affect Chinese calculations of the economic and diplomatic costs of any attack.

It would certainly make life easier for Europeans and American leaders if they had no reason to worry about the fate of Taiwan. But the reality is that a forcible Chinese annexation of the island would have profound global consequences that would quickly be felt in Paris, as well as Peoria..

美國支持台灣主要有3個理由,首先就是「關於世界政治自由的未來」,第二是「關於全球局勢」,第三則是「關於世界經濟」。

《金融時報》專欄作家（Gideon Rachman）直言,「為了保護蓬勃發展的亞洲民主國家,與北京緊張關係升級是值得付出的代價」,內文提到,美國總統拜登已經

4次承諾,美國將保衛台灣免受中國攻擊。

對一些美國人來說「拜登的承諾近乎瘋狂」,智庫研究所（Cato）的（Doug Bandow）也抱怨「大多數的美國決策者,都冒著國家自殺的風險來保護台灣」。

歐洲國家對於保衛台灣的懷疑則更加明顯,直言如果歐美領導人無須擔憂台灣的命運,肯定會讓他們好過一些。

Why Taiwan matters to the world ?

A dangerous rise in tensions with Beijing is a price worth paying to protect a flourishing Asian democracy.

Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is Should the US defend Taiwan? This is not an abstract debate. Over the weekend, Beijing simulated bombing raids on the island, while its navy encircled Taiwan. In response to the steady escalation of Chinese military pressure on the island, President Joe Biden has promised — four times — that the US would defend Taiwan from an attack by China. For some in America, Biden’s pledges are little short of madness. Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute, a think-tank, complains that “most [American] policymakers are prepared to risk national suicide to protect Taiwan”. Why should war-weary America threaten to fight China, another nuclear-armed power, to defend an island of 24mn people that lies roughly 100 miles off the Chinese coast? Scepticism about defending Taiwan is even more pronounced in parts of Europe.

Flying back from a visit to China last week, President Emmanuel Macron implied that France would not lift a finger to protect the island. Discussing Taiwan, he told Politico that the “great risk” for Europe is getting “caught up in crises that are not ours”. In reality, few expect European militaries to get directly involved in a conflict over Taiwan.

But the attitudes of European politicians such as Macron matter, since they will affect Chinese calculations of the economic and diplomatic costs of any attack. It would certainly make life easier for Europeans and American leaders if they had no reason to worry about the fate of Taiwan. But the reality is that a forcible Chinese annexation of the island would have profound global consequences that would quickly be felt in Paris, as well as Peoria. There are three main arguments for sticking up for Taiwan.

The first is about the future of political freedom in the world. The second is about the global balance of power. The third is about the world economy. Together they amount to a compelling case to keep Taiwan out of Beijing’s clutches. The Chinese Communist party argues that one-party rule is the perfect system for China. The US, it insists, should stop trying to promote liberal, democratic values — which are not working well in the west and which would spell disaster for a communitarian culture such as China’s.

But Taiwan, a thriving and prosperous society, is living proof that Chinese culture is completely compatible with democracy. Its existence keeps alive an alternative vision for how China itself might one day be run. Beijing has already crushed aspirations for democracy in Hong Kong. If Xi Jinping were allowed to do the same in Taiwan, autocracy would be entrenched across the Chinese-speaking world. Because China is the emerging superpower of the 21st century, that would have bleak political implications for the world.

Those who are cynical about US democracy promotion might enjoy China’s autocracy protection even less. The idea that mainland China will one day embrace political freedom remains a distant prospect. But the Indo-Pacific region as a whole has several thriving democracies including Japan, South Korea and Australia. They all depend to some extent on a security guarantee from the US. If China crushed Taiwan’s autonomy, either by invading or by strongarming the island into an unwilling political union, then US power in the region would suffer a huge blow. Faced with a prospect of a new hegemonic power in the Indo-Pacific, the region’s countries would respond. Most would choose to accommodate Beijing by changing their foreign and domestic policies.

The desire to avoid giving offence to the prickly new hegemon would quickly restrict freedom of speech and action for China’s neighbours. The implications of Chinese dominance of the Indo-Pacific would also be global, since the region accounts for around two-thirds of the world’s population and of gross domestic product. If China dominated the region, it would be well on the way to displacing the US as the world’s most powerful nation. The idea that Europe would not be affected by that shift in global power is absurd. Now, more than ever, Europe is dependent on America’s willingness to face down Russia, China’s despotic ally. Some might argue that abstract notions like “hegemony” matter little to ordinary people. But a quirk of Taiwan’s economic development means that control of the island would quickly have major implications for living standards all over the world. Taiwan produces over 60 per cent of the world’s semiconductors and about 90 per cent of the most sophisticated ones.

The gadgets that make modern life work, from phones to cars and industrial machinery, are run with Taiwanese chips. But the factories that produce them could be destroyed by an invasion. If Taiwan’s chip factories survived but fell under Chinese control, the economic implications would be huge. Control of the world’s most advanced semiconductors would give Beijing a chokehold over the world economy.

As the US has already discovered, replicating Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is much harder than it sounds. All these considerations — economic, strategic, political — make a compelling case for the US and its allies to protect Taiwan. No one in their right mind wants a war between America and China. But now, as in the past, it is sometimes necessary to prepare for war — to keep the peace.