00:00Taiwan remains on high alert, despite massive Chinese life fire drills around the country wrapping up.
00:08On Monday, Beijing announced Justice Mission 2025, declaring seven restricted zones around Taiwan
00:14and deploying record numbers of ships and warplanes around the country, simulating what a blockade might look like.
00:20The Chinese military also launching rockets into water surrounding Taiwan.
00:24The defense ministry says some of China's rockets landed within Taiwan's 24 nautical mile contiguous zone, the closest ever in a live fire drill.
00:41China's rockets were launched in two waves, the first wave targeting an area northeast of Jilong's port but outside the 24 nautical mile zone,
00:48while the second wave landed in waters off Tainan within the boundary.
00:51Taiwan's ocean affairs officials say Chinese ships are moving away from Taiwan,
00:55and the defense ministry tracked 77 Chinese aircraft and 17 naval vessels in the 24 hours leading up to Wednesday morning.
01:02That's 207 planes and 49 Chinese ships across two days of exercises.
01:08The exercise, launched days after the U.S. announced a record $11 billion arms package for Taiwan, has drawn global condemnation.
01:16Taiwan President Lai Qingde says Chinese intimidation of Taiwan has been expanding across the region and the military needs to stay resolute.
01:23the efforts in the future of Beijing and China's nuclear force.
01:28The military and all of the federal banks have been running the more the best to lead the troops in the future.
01:35For more than three years, the military and the military will take advantage of the power of the military.
01:39Some analysts say these drills, which also came during a time of tension between Beijing and Tokyo,
01:44Tokyo, may be aimed not just at Taiwan, but at countries that might intervene in a potential
01:48invasion.
01:50If you look at the different theme posters, so one of them sticks out in particular, I
01:55believe it's the Shield of Justice one, where it says like breaking illusions or something
02:00along those lines.
02:01If you look at that, there's two shields, right?
02:03And it says in the commentary, right?
02:05So two shield, one blocking the Bashi channel, the other one blocking the Miyako Strait.
02:10One, I mean, it's a signal about choke points.
02:12It actually kind of buttresses exactly what the national security strategy says about Taiwan.
02:18For those living in Taiwan, life has mostly gone back to normal, with flights to outlying
02:22islands now back up and running.
02:24But the government and armed forces are hoping to use these latest drills as a lesson to keep
02:28a close eye on China's next moves.
02:30Alex Chen and Larry Siano for Taiwan Plus.
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