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US exhausts cards against China despite rising military activities near Taiwan, S.China Sea

2021-12-29 10:28:06 source：Global Times

December 28, 2021

According to monitoring from a Chinese think tank, the US military conducted highly intensive operations near China including aerial close-in reconnaissance, aircraft carrier drills and submarine activities over the past year, posing severe military threats and security risks to China in regions including the South China Sea and the Taiwan Straits, military experts said on Tuesday.

With US President Joe Biden on Monday signing a new defense bill that will see US military expenditure further expand with a particular focus on China, Chinese analysts predict further increase of US military activities targeting China next year, and said China should continue its efforts to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity by enhancing its national defense development and troops' combat preparedness.

In 2021, the US maintained its intensive military activities in the South China Sea targeting China, including close-in reconnaissance operations, transits of the Taiwan Straits, forward deployment, strategic deterrence operations, so-called freedom of navigation operations, drills and battlefield construction activities, the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative (SCSPI), a Beijing-based think tank, revealed on Monday in an article published in its WeChat account written by Hu Bo, the think tank's director.

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