The government yesterday denounced a ballistic missile test conducted by North Korea, adding it is monitoring the movements of the Chinese navy in the South China Sea and western Pacific Ocean.
Presidential Office spokesman Alex Huang (黃重諺) expressed the government’s “strong disapproval” of North Korea firing a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, adding that Taiwan’s defense and national security authorities are “closely monitoring” military responses in the region.
“Any act aimed at intimidation and any behavior that undermines regional stability should be severely denounced,” Huang said.
Responding to a Chinese media report that a group of Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy vessels sailed from Sanya in Hainan Island two days ago on a training mission, Huang said that defense and security officials are monitoring the situation, adding that all necessary countermeasures have been taken.
The naval exercise is taking place one month after China’s sole aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, passed through the Taiwan Strait on Jan. 12, when President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) was in Central America on a state visit.
The Daily Chinese People’s Liberation Army newspaper on Saturday said that the South Sea Fleet naval group, comprised of two missile frigates and a supply ship, will sail the South China Sea, East Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean on a training mission that will also include elements from the air force as well as part of China’s East Sea and North Sea fleets.
Huang said that Taiwan’s national defense and national security authorities are ready for any development.
“Our defense readiness underpins national security, so the public should rest assured,” he added.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching