Spokesperson Zhu Fenglian “The Chinese government is aware of the incident” Official response
In response to the Taiwanese military’s first downing of a Chinese drone that intruded into its jurisdiction, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of China criticized the “Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party regime intentionally to promote the incident to incite tension”. .
According to Taiwan News, an English newspaper in Taiwan on the 2nd, Zhu Fenglian (朱鳳蓮), spokesman for the Taiwan Office of the People’s Republic of China, said at a press conference the day before that he was aware of reports about the shooting down of a Chinese drone by the Taiwanese military.
At a press conference, Spokesperson Zhu said, “Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party regime is deliberately propagating the incident (the drone shot down) to incite tension.”
Earlier, at 12:03 pm (local time) on the 1st at 12:03 (local time), the Taiwanese Army Jinmen Defense Command, an unidentified civilian drone, entered the controlled waters near Suyu, an island attached to Jinmen Island, and attempted to evacuate according to the response procedure. However, he said he did not respond and fired a defensive fire and shot it down.
Jinmen Dao, located only 3.2 km from Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China, is an island that Taiwan has effectively controlled even after the civil war ended in 1949, and is the forefront of Taiwan’s security.
Since the 30th of last month, the Taiwanese military has raised the level of response by targeting Chinese drones that have entered its jurisdiction and firing live ammunition defense.
This is the first time a drone has been shot down.
A spokesperson for the Taiwan Office of Public Affairs said at a press conference that the Chinese government was aware of the incident (the drone shot down), but did not comment on who piloted the drone.
A spokesman for Zhou’s remarks about the drone shot down by the Taiwanese military was an official acknowledgment that the Chinese government was aware of the incident, Taiwan News analyzed.
The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of China is the agency in charge of Taiwan-related affairs of the Chinese government.
Earlier, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Wang Wenbin (汪文斌) said at a regular briefing on the 1st, “It is meaningless for the Taiwanese authorities to exaggerate tensions.” have said
The Taiwanese government confirmed that the drone was shot down by the Taiwanese military and only said it was a “civilian drone.”
China is strengthening its military pressure on Taiwan by firing missiles that pass through Taiwan while conducting a large-scale live-fire exercise surrounding Taiwan Island on the occasion of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan (August 2-3). .
As the military tensions between the two banks (兩岸, China and Taiwan) are rapidly escalating, the number of Chinese civilian drones flying to Jinmen Dao and annexed islands is on the rise.
The Taiwanese military believes that China is trying to weaken its vigilance posture by implementing a ‘gray zone tactic’ (a tactic to turn a specific area into a conflict zone) using civilian drones.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense announced on the 28th of last month that when Chinese drones appear, they plan to chase them out of airspace through warning sounds, broadcasts, and firing of flares, but if they do not back down, they plan to take appropriate measures such as shooting down.
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