Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/04/16
By: Flor Wang and Lu Hsin-hui
Taipei, April 16 (CNA) The live-fire military exercise to be held by the People’s Liberation
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Army (PLA) in the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday is just a form of psychological warfare employed by China to put pressure on Taiwan, an expert said Monday.
“It’s a far cry from the 1996 missile crisis triggered by a joint military exercise across the Taiwan Strait. This one is much smaller and will only last a day,” Chang Jung-feng (張榮豐), a former deputy secretary-general of the National Security Council, said in a radio interview.
Asked if the two military exercises held 22 years apart have some similarities, Chang said the differences were more noticeable.
“The area where Chinese troops held military exercises in 1996 simulating joint attacks on Taiwan actually crossed over the median line of the Taiwan Strait,” he said.
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