Both the Global Times and South China Morning Post (SCMP) report on an exercise staged by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), simulating an island invasion on Oct. 10, Taiwan’s “Double 10” holiday.
The “Double 10” holiday celebrates the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising, a revolt that led to a declaration of independence from the central government by Wuchang and several other provinces in China in 1911. This in turn led to the Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew the Qing dynasty and established the Republic of China (ROC) in 1912. Since the Revolution of 1949 by the Communist Party of China (CPC), and the retreat of Chiang Kaishek’s KMT to Taiwan, the P.R.C., under the “One China” policy, considers Taiwan as a province of China, not a separate nation, and has always insisted that it will use military force if Taiwan and any foreign force attempts to declare Taiwan independent of China.
The military exercises were large-scale joint amphibious landing drills off the Chinese mainland’s southeastern coast, and featured concentrated deployments of unmanned aerial, surface and ground vehicles, and air- and sea-borne attacks from multiple locations.
Global Times reported, “Cross-service multidimensional joint amphibious landing exercises recently started in waters off the coast of East China’s Fujian and South China’s Guangdong provinces, in which the combined amphibious forces affiliated with the PLA 73rd Group Army integrated with newly established forces including army aviation, special operation and electronic countermeasures units and comprehensively tested their combat capabilities in realistic war scenarios, China Central Television (CCTV), the state broadcaster, reported on Sunday.
“A large number of amphibious landing ships are seen in the report footage transporting amphibious armored vehicles, tanks, artillery and troops to the target island.
