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Taiwan On Wednesday, a day later, emergency systems were on high alert. China A comprehensive live-fire exercise was conducted Rockets were fired and scores of ships and aircraft deployed around the self-governing island in a show of force that alarmed Western countries.
China’s military has now ended its exercises around Taiwan, state-owned CCTV announced.
Earlier, when Chinese ships began moving away from waters surrounding Taiwan, authorities Taipei explain Beijing The United States has not officially announced the end of the exercise, called “Justice Mission 2025,” so it needs to continue to monitor maritime and airspace.
“The situation at sea has calmed down and ships are gradually leaving the port. As China The end of the military exercise has not been announcedTaiwan’s Maritime Affairs Commission director Kwan Biling said in a Facebook post late Tuesday that the emergency center was still operating.
A Coast Guard official said all 11 Chinese Coast Guard ships that previously operated near Taiwan Evacuated and continues to evacuate.
However, a Taiwanese security official confirmed that military and coast guard emergency response centers remained active.
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said China had flown 77 military aircraft and 25 navy and coast guard vessels around the island in the 24 hours to Wednesday morning. Of those planes, 35 flew across the centerline of the Taiwan Strait – an unofficial buffer zone that Beijing increasingly ignores.
China says the exercises are the most geographically widespread to date and disrupt daily life in Taiwan.
On Tuesday, authorities canceled dozens of domestic flights and the military scrambled jets and deployed warships to track China’s movements. Soldiers were also seen conducting rapid response drills, including setting up roadblocks at key locations.
Ambassadors from the Quad group – the United States, Australia, Japan and India – met in Beijing on Tuesday as the military exercises unfolded. The Quad is an informal strategic partnership focused on security in the Indo-Pacific region.
U.S. Ambassador David Perdue shared a photo of the meeting on X and called the group a “force for good” supporting free and open regions, without providing further details. The U.S. Embassy declined to comment.
China defends the exercise as a warning to Taiwan’s independence movement and foreign interference.
Zhang Han, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council in Beijing, said the exercise was a “necessary and just measure” to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, adding that it was a “stern warning against Taiwan independence separatist forces and interference from external forces.”
The official news agency Xinhua said the drills began 11 days after Washington announced a record arms package worth $11.1 billion (£8.7 billion) to Taiwan.
Xinhua News Agency said in a commentary outlining “three key points” that the simulated island siege showed the People’s Liberation Army’s ability to isolate Taiwan while preventing outside forces from intervening, a practice known as “internal blockade and external blockade.”
Analysis by Zhang Chi, a professor at the National Defense University of the People’s Liberation Army.
Taiwan’s government denounced the drills as provocative and destabilizing. China claims the democratically governed island as its own territory and has not ruled out using force to bring it under its control, a position Taipei firmly rejects.
Britain has also expressed growing international concern.
British Foreign Office spokesman said China’s military activity had “increased”[s] cross-strait tensions and risks of escalation,” urging restraint and calling for peaceful resolution of disputes through dialogue rather than coercion or force.
The Chinese Embassy in London refuted the remarks, calling them a “distortion of facts.”
Mainland China and Taiwan have been divided since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
The Taiwan Strait remains one of Asia’s most sensitive flashpoints, with Beijing sending warplanes and ships to the island on an almost daily basis as pressure on Taipei continues to mount.