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The cheena aircraft and ships are violating the area of Taiwan. Recently, a landing ship of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has appeared close to North Taiwan. This action of the Chinese army has happened at a time when Taiwan is going to conduct the biggest military exercise of the year. Taiwan's Defense Ministry on Tuesday informed that the type 072A tank landing ship is seen close to 60 knots in the north-east of Taiwan city of Kilung on Friday, a major naval base and northern sea entry gate of Taipei.
Taiwan's Chief of Staff Chun Chun-Jung said that the ship entered the border and it could threaten the important infrastructure of the island. He said that to keep an eye on any activity of Chinese ships falling in the water range of Taiwan, it has been deployed in various maritime areas monitoring and intelligence gathering technology.
The 🇹🇼republic of China navy says it is monitoring a 🇨🇳PePle's Liberation Army Navy Type 072A Tank Landing Ship North of Keelung.
The photo was taken by a passenger aboard a plan from Shanghai to Taipei.
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Chiu said that apart from type 072A, China has taken action like spying, gathering information about the campaign and finding sea routes. He said that our forces are being monitored. We will respond properly as per the requirement of the situation.
Gray-zone crossed
According to local media, Taiwan's army has said in a initial investigation that the PLA vessel had crossed the gray-zone. The step from China has been raised before the Kuang exercise, which is Taiwan's largest annual military drill, which will begin on 9 July.
Taiwan's Kuang Practice
Taiwan's Ministry of Defense has said that about 22 thousand reserve soldiers will participate in the Kuang exercise to be held this year. Taiwan has said that this 10 days of war will be unprecedented in the length and scale of the exercise.
It also states that in this practice, all citizens will be given training for the conditions of war. So that practice can be practiced under continuous live-fire conditions to simulate resistance against the attack by PLA. In this, listening to the speech of sirens will be given to the public, information about safe targets etc.
This is not the first time that China has sent its ship exercise first here. Prior to last year's Han Kuang exercise, two types of 072A were seen on the coast of the Halian city east of the ship island.
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