The Chinese military is launching “multiple waves” of missiles inland in China, following the Chinese Rocket Force’s first test-fire of an intercontinental ballistic missile since 1980, just days ago. Beginning at about 6:50 a.m. local time, the waves of missiles were fired in Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang, about 1,200 miles from Taiwan.
The Taiwanese Defense Ministry stated that it was “continuously monitoring relevant developments, and air defense forces have maintained a high level of vigilance and strengthened their alert.” The ministry had earlier criticized the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for launching the ICBM into the Pacific with little notice to its neighbors, warning the international community that the CCP’s renewed military activity was creating instability in the region.
Last week, the ministry detected 29 aircraft joining Chinese warships for war games and another instance of 43 Chinese military aircraft operating around Taiwan, half of them moving through the Bashi Channel that separates Taiwan from the Philippines.
