The air force in the southern theater recently organized a live-fire attack drill in the South China Sea, amid ongoing tensions in the Taiwan Strait, China's military radio reported Sunday.

And the radio account on the Weibo platform published scenes that he said were of the exercises, the exact date of which has not been determined, in which multi-type fighters were used to carry out large-scale operations with multiple types of bombs to train to attack naval-ground targets, and improve the unit’s combat capability. effectively.

Last month, Chinese forces carried out exercises described as the largest near Taiwan, in response to the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taipei.

For its part, the Taiwan Ministry of Defense said that it had detected 5 Chinese ships and 7 aircraft around the area around the island, and 3 aircraft had been observed flying in the eastern part of the middle line of the Taiwan Strait.


The ministry had said that it was recently reported that unidentified drones from China were hovering over the barracks in Kinmen.

The ministry's Twitter account said that the Taiwanese army deployed anti-aircraft jamming devices, and gave permission to its soldiers to fire warning shots, as a countermeasure to counter China's harassment.

For its part, the Taiwan Foreign Ministry said that Taiwan's exclusion from the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly hinders a real global effort.

The Taiwan Foreign Ministry added - in a tweet on its Twitter account - that Taiwan deserves equal access to the United Nations, to make more contributions.