Business Insider
Date: July 30, 2019
By: Ryan Pickrell
The aircraft carrier Liaoning during a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy drill in the western Pacific Ocean.
REUTERS/Stringer
The drills are meant to demonstrate China's resolve in response to US activities, namely regular Taiwan Strait transits by the US Navy and a $2.2 billion arms sale to Taiwan, military experts told the South China Morning Post.
The latest exercises follow the release of a new Chinese defense white paper that reiterated Beijing's longstanding position: China will not renounce the use of force as an option for reunification with Taiwan.
China has kicked off large-scale military drills in waters near Taiwan just days after warning in a new defense report that it remains ready and willing to use force to achieve reunification.
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