China views Taiwan, which is about 160 kilometers (100 miles) off China s east coast, as a renegade province that must come under its control. The alerts went off in the middle of an international news conference by Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu. He clarified it was a satellite launch, told journalists not to worry, and proceeded with the news conference.
China s President Xi Jinping has emphasized the inevitable "reunification" of Taiwan with China, announcing that the two countries are "members of one and the same family" and hoped for joint prosperity. The Jan. 13 presidential and parliamentary elections are happening at a time of fraught relations between Beijing and Taipei, with China ramping up military pressure to assert its sovereignty claims over Taiwan.
Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party was accused by China’s defence ministry of trying to ‘stoke confrontation and manipulate’ the self-ruled island s upcoming presidential election.
China News: According to Defense One, the deployment, set for 2024, includes Tomahawk and SM-6 missiles and is enabled by the US's exit from the Intermediate-Rang
As China continues to invest in making drones more modular and drone operators more specialised, India has to develop counter-drone strategies of its own and hope that the US curbs on the flow of critical technologies to China have the desired effect