{"id":14622,"date":"2022-08-16T13:28:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=14622"},"modified":"2022-08-16T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:28:46","slug":"taiwan-accuses-china-of-exaggeration-with-islands-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=14622","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan accuses China of exaggeration with islands footage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TAIPEI, Aug 16<\/strong> – Taiwan accused China of exaggeration on Tuesday after the Chinese military published footage of the strategically located Penghu islands, where there is a major Taiwanese air base, saying it was not true Chinese forces had come near the islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China, which claims Taiwan as its territory, has carried out military exercises around the island this month after a visit by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was followed by five U.S. lawmakers on Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>The Chinese military unit responsible for the area adjacent to Taiwan, the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theatre Command, released on Monday video of the Penghu islands, apparently taken by a Chinese air force aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Taiwan Air Force Vice Chief of Staff for Operations Tung Pei-lun told reporters in Taipei that this was Chinese information warfare, though he said he had no comment on who had taken the video.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“China used the exaggerated tricks of cognitive warfare to show how close it was to Penghu – which is not true,” Tung said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taiwan’s Defence Ministry on Monday, in an update of Chinese air force activity near Taiwan, showed on a map that the closest Chinese aircraft to Penghu that day were four J-16 fighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fighters crossed the Taiwan Strait median line – normally an unofficial barrier between the two sides – but stayed closer to the Chinese coast than Penghu, the map showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tung said that Taiwan had a real-time “grasp” of what was going on in the skies, and that Chinese aircraft have been operating to the north and southwest of Taiwan and across the median line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Penghu, a summer tourist destination for its beaches, is close to Taiwan’s southwestern coast, unlike the Taiwan-controlled Kinmen and Matsu islands, which are right next to the Chinese coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taiwan’s armed forces are well-equipped but dwarfed by China’s. The island’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, has been overseeing a modernisation programme and has made increasing defence spending a priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defence Ministry spokesman Sun Li-fang said next year’s proposed defence budget had been submitted to the Cabinet for approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is based on the “assessment of the enemy threat”, military development needs, and Taiwan’s overall financial resources, he said, without giving details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NMT<\/a> as reported by Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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