Chinese PLA warns Taiwan separatists with military drills

The Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) conducted the Joint Sword-2024B military drills in the waters around the Taiwan island early Monday.

According Li Xi, spokesperson for the theater command, it organized its troops of army, navy, air force and rocket force to carry out the military exercises which involved vessels and planes closing in on the island from multiple directions.

On the same day, the China Coast Guard (CCG) said that its four CCG fleets carried out law-enforcement patrols in the waters around the Taiwan island. A CCG spokesperson stated that it's a practical action to lawfully enforce control over Taiwan in accordance with the one-China principle.