Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said on Tuesday that China’s response to Vice President Lai Ching-te's (賴清德) U.S. transit has been relatively small.
The ministry’s spokesperson Sun Li-fang (孫立方) said that compared with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last year and President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) transit in the U.S., the scale of China’s military exercises is comparatively small.
Sun said the Taiwan military uses joint intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance to monitor all developments in the Taiwan Strait, but so far has not seen any significant movements.
China announced on Friday, just before Lai’s departure for Paraguay, that it would hold naval exercises outside Zhejiang from August 12 to 14. Taiwan's military also held public exercises at Taichung's Ching Chuan Kang air force base (中清泉崗基地) in recent days to demonstrate the training results in combat readiness for inspection.