The Eastern Theater Command organizes multi-service and arms joint combat readiness patrols and actual combat drills in the sea and airspace around Taiwan Island

The Eastern Theater Command organizes multi-service and arms joint combat readiness patrols and actual combat drills in the sea and airspace around Taiwan Island

According to the annual military cooperation plan between the Chinese and Russian militaries, on May 24, the air forces of the two countries organized routine joint air strategic patrols over the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea and the Western Pacific Ocean.

Colonel Shi Yi, spokesman for the Eastern Theater Command, said that recently, the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army has organized multi-service joint combat readiness patrols and actual combat drills in the sea and airspace around Taiwan Island. This is a solemn warning to the recent US-Taiwan collusion activities. It is hypocritical and futile for the US to say one thing and do another on the Taiwan issue, and frequently encourage the "Taiwan independence" forces. Taiwan is part of China. The theater troops are determined and capable of thwarting any external forces' interference and separatist attempts to "Taiwan independence", and resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security and regional peace and stability.