China announced the conclusion of its massive live-fire drills surrounding Taiwan.
The Chinese military began the drills last week in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan, which Beijing viewed as a violation of Chinese sovereignty. The weeklong drills saw the Chinese People's Liberation Army conduct extensive simulations of air and sea attacks around the island, including firing ballistic missiles over the capital of Taipei, according to Reuters.
"[The PLA] successfully completed various tasks and effectively tested the integrated combat capabilities of the troops," said a statement from the PLA's Eastern Theater command."Theater forces will keep an eye on the changes in the situation in the Taiwan Strait, continue to carry out training and preparation for combat, organize regular combat readiness patrols in the direction of the Taiwan Strait, and resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
On Wednesday, China's Taiwan Affairs Office published a new white paper,"The Taiwan Question and China's Reunification in the New Era," its first policy paper in 22 years, according to the Wall Street Journal. The paper reiterates Beijing's policy of seeing Taiwan as part of China, proposing once again the peaceful offer of a"one country, two systems" model that it currently uses with Hong Kong.
"We are one China, and Taiwan is part of China. This is an indisputable fact supported by history and the law. Taiwan has never been a state; its status as part of China is unalterable," the paper says, according to state-run Xinhua."The realization of complete national reunification is driven by the history and culture of the Chinese nation and determined by the momentum towards and circumstances surrounding our national rejuvenation.
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