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China simulates precision strikes on Taiwan

Xi Jinping says talk of compromise is “wishful thinking”

Apr 8th 2023

Editor’s note: This story was updated on April 9th.

China’s armed forces simulated “precision strikes” on Taiwan on April 9th in the second of three days of military drills around the island. The exercises follow a meeting between Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, and the speaker of America’s House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, in California on April 5th. China had promised “resolute counter-measures” if the meeting—the first between a speaker and a Taiwanese president on American soil—went ahead.

Chinese state television reported that multiple units “carried out simulated joint precision strikes on key targets on Taiwan island and the surrounding sea areas, and continue to maintain an offensive posture around the island.” Senior Colonel Zhao Xiaozhuo of China’s Academy of Military Sciences told the state-run Global Times newspaper that this was the first time China had described drills in such a way, adding that “key targets” could include infrastructure such as runways and military logistics facilities.