China's military ended three days of live-fire drills around Taiwan on Monday, after a show of force intended to intimidate Taiwan.
Chinese People's Liberation Army warplanes during the military exercises around Taiwan on April 9. Photo: Mei Shaoquan/Xinhua via Getty Images
The use of such force "exacerbates fears about China’s growing military capabilities, and causes smaller countries to fret about the U.S.-China competitive dynamic," Drew Thompson, a visiting fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, told Axios.China's drills were smaller than those that followed then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit last year but included some new elements.
China also conducted patrols in the Taiwan Strait and inspected ships passing through. At least 71 Chinese aircraft After they concluded, the PLA said the exercises had demonstrated that its troops were "ready to fight at any time to resolutely smash any form of ‘Taiwan independence’ and foreign interference attempts."said
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