‘PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE’: Tomorrow’s drill is a far cry from the ones held in 1995 and 1996, when the PLA simulated missile attacks and marine landings, an expert said
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 17, 2018
By: Staff writer, with CNA
A Chinese military exercise scheduled to take place in the Taiwan Strait tomorrow is just a
National Security Bureau Director-General Peng Sheng-chu talks to reporters at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday. Photo: CNA
routine drill of no major significance, and the nation’s military has not increased its level of combat readiness, Ministry of National Defense and security officials said yesterday.
“The military has not raised its normal level of combat readiness,” the ministry’s Office for Operations and Planning Director Lieutenant-General Chiang Chen-chung (姜振中) said.
“The military is fully prepared to deter any foreign attack,” he said in response to questions from lawmakers on the legislature’s Foreign and National Defense Committee.
National Security Bureau Director-General Peng Sheng-chu (彭勝竹) agreed, saying that the scale of the Chinese military exercise is roughly at a battalion level, and it is not aimed at any specific political party in Taiwan. [FULL STORY]
