Taiwan's outlying islands are on "heightened alert" and its "aircraft and ships will respond to enemy situations," says the country's Ministry of National Defense, after China deployed jets and warships to encircle the self-ruled island. Defense Ministry spokesperson Sun Lifang describes the drill as "irrational and provocative."
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00:00The Ministry of National Defense has ordered all three military units to comply with the
00:04emergency situations stipulated by the military-to-military combat readiness period, to review the
00:09response of all troops, and to closely monitor the dynamics of the CCP's rocket forces.
00:14The security areas of each island island have been alerted, but the missions have not been
00:19carried out in accordance with the rules of combat.
00:22The Ministry of National Defense has to explain that this kind of irrational military exercise
00:27will not only jeopardize the security situation of the Taiwan Strait, but also undermine
00:32the security situation in the Indo-Pacific region, and threaten international order based
00:37on rules.