Earlier this week, Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Chaozhou, a city on the front line to Taiwan, and gave a shout-out to the Marines stationed there. On the Internet, some have asked if something is going to happen in Fujian and if Xiamen is going to be at war.
On Monday (12), Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), went to Chaozhou, China’s front-line city toward Taiwan, to greet Marines during a visit to Chaoshan, Guangdong Province, and two days later, on Wednesday (14), the Shenzhen Emergency Management Bureau (SEMA) issued a notice to guide the public on how to respond to disasters, Free Asia reported today.
According to the Shenzhen Emergency Management Bureau, the recommended list of emergency supplies for Shenzhen families is divided into a “basic list” of emergency items, emergency tools, and emergency medications, which list the items needed for common disasters and for all types of disasters. For example, multi-functional emergency flashlight, lifesaving whistle, fire extinguisher, breathing mask, etc. The “expanded version” includes food, household items, emergency items and emergency tools. Chinese netizens were surprised by the announcement, with Weibo user “Elephant” writing, “It’s hard not to associate with this announcement at this time,” and others writing, “Is something going to happen in Fujian?
According to the report, Xi Jinping, chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC), inspected the Marine Corps in Chaoshan this week. He said the Marine Corps is an amphibious elite combat force that shoulders important responsibilities in safeguarding national sovereignty security and territorial integrity, safeguarding national maritime rights and interests, and safeguarding national overseas interests. Xi added, “grasp the characteristic law of Marine Corps construction management and combat application, accelerate the transformation of construction, accelerate the improvement of combat capabilities, and strive to forge a synthetic multi-competent, rapid response, all-area application of the elite brigade.”
Free Asia says China has recently stepped up its military activities around the island of Taiwan. In the first nine months of this year, China flew 1,710 sorties of fighter jets and conducted 1,029 air incursions and 1,029 maritime incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone. Since the beginning of the year, Taiwan’s Air Force has been forced to conduct 4,132 emergency sorties since January, a 129 percent increase from the same period last year, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense. In the past month, nearly 40 Chinese warplanes have crossed the centerline of the Taiwan Strait and entered the air defense identification zone in southwest Taiwan.
Recent Comments