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China launched its most extensive war games around Taiwan on Monday to showcase Beijing's ability to cut off the island from outside support in a conflict, testing Taipei's resolve to defend itself and its arsenal of U.S.-made weapons.

The Eastern Theatre Command said it had deployed troops, warships, fighter jets and artillery for its "Justice Mission 2025" exercises to encircle the democratically governed island, conduct live fire and simulated strikes on land and sea targets, and drills to blockade Taiwan's main ports.

The live-firing exercises will continue on Tuesday across a record seven zones designated by China's Maritime Safety Administration, making the drills the largest to date by total coverage and in areas closer to Taiwan than previous exercises. The military had initially said artillery firing would be confined to five zones.

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[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

CCP didn't take it when the current Taiwan gov moved there, they only took the mainland.

That's literally the definition of how countries split in two

[–] BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world -4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

The countries have not split into two. It's still one country.

Both ROC and PROC agree on this.

Only America wants to break them apart because they can make Taiwan a vassal state similar to how they broke Korea apart and make South Korea a vassal state of the American empire.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

They so not agree on this, stop watching CCP propaganda. CCP is the only one pushing for this in the entire world with some allies like Russia simply backing it up. This is an imperialism move and you know it.

[–] BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world 1 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

Stop watching CIA propaganda. CIA has spent billions on anti-China propaganda. They're so good most Americans aren't even aware of it

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/china-cold-war-2669160202/

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 points 38 minutes ago

I'm telling you what Taiwan and it's people says, not US.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 2 points 1 hour ago

Congratulations you're Mongolian (or Roman or British)

Do you have any idea how many countries do the same thing yet are considered different countries? Russia insists Ukraine is part of them (for incoherent historical reasons), you have the European east block, plenty of countries named East X versus West X.

You even mentioned Korea yourself where both insists they're one country but the whole world understands there's 2 separate countries claiming the same territory but each with control of separate subsets of that territory, and they de facto operate as separate countries. Considering the opposing government as illegitimate doesn't negate its existence.

Your worldview is incoherent.