States the Beijing Army
The Chinese army has announced that he had deployed his Shandong aircraft carrier in exercises near Taiwan aimed at testing the ability to “block” the autonomous island.
The Shandong conducted exercises that involved “ship-aircraft coordination, conquest of the air superiority of the area and attack on terrestrial and maritime goals”, said the Eastern Theater Command of the Beijing Army. The skills of the “Blocking and multidimensional control” troops of the island were also tested, he added.
