China is deploying its biggest navy fleet in local waters in nearly 3 decades, posing a threat to Taiwan that is more noticable than previous Chinese dry run, the Taiwanese defence ministry said on Tuesday.Speaking in Taipei, defence ministry representative Sun Li-fang stated the scale of the present Chinese naval implementation in a location ranging from the southern Japanese islands down into the South China Sea was the largest given that China held dry run around Taiwan ahead of 1996 Taiwanese governmental elections.China&& 's military has yet to comment and has actually not verified it is performing any workouts, Reuters reported.China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own area over the island&& 's rejection, had actually been expected to launch drills to express its anger at President Lai Ching-te&& 's tour of the Pacific that ended on Friday, which included stopovers in Hawaii and the United States territory of Guam.Taiwan&& 's military raised its alert on Monday after saying China had reserved airspace and released marine and coast guard vessels.&& The current scale is the largest compared to the previous four,& & Sun stated.
& Regardless of whether they have revealed drills, they are posing a great dangers to us.&& Senior ministry intelligence officer Hsieh Jih-sheng informed the same interview there have actually up until now been no live fire drills in China&& 's 7 & booked & air space zones, two of which are in the Taiwan Strait, however there had actually been a substantial boost in Chinese activity to the north of Taiwan over the last day.The variety of China navy and coast guard ships in the area, which a Taiwan security source informed Reuters stayed at around 90, was && really disconcerting & , and China was taking objective at other countries in the area and not just Taiwan, he added.China&& 's implementation in & the First Island Chain-- which runs from Japan through Taiwan, the Philippines and on to Borneo, confining China&& 's coastal seas-- is targeted at location denial to avoid foreign forces from interfering, Hsieh said.
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