China holds second day of military drills around Taiwan, simulates attacks on island

China’s military deployed 71 aircraft and nine naval vessels around Taiwan on Sunday, the second day People’s Liberation Africa Huge exercises near the island.

After returning from a trip to the United States this week, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. and met with other legislators.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense is in charge. The Air Force45 of the Navy and land-based missile systems have crossed the middle line of the Taiwan Strait, an unofficial buffer zone between the island and China, to track Chinese aircraft.

Chinese state television said the units carried out simulated joint precision strikes against key targets on Taiwan Island and surrounding sea areas, Reuters reported.

The people of Taiwan have agreed that they will not come to help if China is invaded, divided to a dangerous level.

Although this weekend’s drills were larger than in recent months, China regularly sends aircraft and ships around Taiwan.

Beijing, angered by the meeting between McCarthy and Taiwan’s president, slapped back. Sanctions on the Ronald Reagan Presidential LibraryWhere the two leaders met, as well as the Hudson Institute for “Taiwan separatist activities to provide a platform and convenience.”

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., shakes hands with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen after making statements to the press at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Wednesday, April 5, 2023, in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Ringo HW Chiu)

Sen. Lindsey Graham, S.C. And other hawkish lawmakers have called on the U.S. to pledge to defend Taiwan. Invasion of China.

“The question for Congress – should we have a defense treaty with the island of Taiwan? We don’t have one. Should we have one?” Graham told Fox News on Sunday. “Yes, I would be very open to using US forces to defend Taiwan, because it is in our national security interest to do so.”

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Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisc., chairman of the House Select Committee on China, said Chinese President Xi Jinping “wants to reunify Taiwan with the mainland if necessary.”

“It shows you how sensitive the Chinese are when the Speaker of the House meets the democratically elected leader of Taiwan on American soil,” Gallagher told Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “Before it’s too late, before we have another war on our hands, we must move heaven and earth to bring power to the Indo-Pacific.”

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House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, also presided. Legislative delegation to Taiwan After visiting Japan and South Korea this week.