China's Military Exercises Wind Down

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Officials say Chinese ships are moving away from Taiwan, signaling that China's "Justice Mission 2025" military exercises are winding down. These were the largest Chinese military drills ever recorded in terms of affected areas, and saw the closest-ever rocket landings to Taiwan's main island.

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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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