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Taipei regards the new exercises of the Chinese military around Taiwan as a dangerous provocation that can undermine regional stability, according to a statement on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan.
On Monday, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian announced that the Chinese army is again conducting military exercises and patrols around Taiwan in response to a two-day visit to the island by a delegation of congressmen from the United States led by Senator Ed Markey.
The island’s foreign ministry noted that due to the fact that the PRC on August 15 again announced military exercises in the sea and airspace near Taiwan under the pretext of a visit to the island by United States congressmen, the island’s Foreign Ministry draws attention to the fact that the reception of foreign parliamentarians is a normal phenomenon for ordinary exchanges between democratic countries.
The Ministry stressed that it is absurd for China to use this as a pretext for carrying out “dangerous military provocations”.