🇨🇳❌🇹🇼📃 — 🇹🇼🪖 Ministry of National Defense of Republic of China (Taiwan), last night, on twitter:
— "Multiple PLA craft were detected around Taiwan Strait, some have crossed the median line.

Possible simulated attack against HVA.

ROC Armed Forces have utilized alert broadcast, aircraft in CAP, patrolling naval vessels, and land-based missile systems in response to this situation."

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Associated Press: Blockade of Taiwan, which was previously predicted against the backdrop of large-scale exercises of the PLA, is already underway

Taiwan cancels flights as China conducts military exercises, AP writes. The publication notes that the blockade "increased the risk of failures in the flow of Taiwanese-made processor chips needed by the industry's global telecommunications and automotive companies."

Hong Kong newspaper The South China Morning Post called the exercise "an effective blockade of Taiwan." Against this background, China is extending military exercises around Taiwan from 7 to 15 August.

🇹🇼 🇨🇳 Taiwan accuses Beijing of simulating invasion as US-China relations nosedive

Taiwan accused the Chinese army of simulating an attack on its main island Saturday, as Beijing continued its retaliation for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Taipei visit.

Beijing maintained some of its largest-ever military drills around Taiwan on Saturday -- exercises aimed at practising a blockade and ultimate invasion of the island, analysts say.

"They were judged to be conducting a simulation of an attack on Taiwan's main island," the island's defence ministry said.

Beijing said it would also hold a live-fire drill in a southern part of the Yellow Sea -- located between China and the Korean peninsula -- from Saturday until August 15.

John Culver, a former CIA Asia analyst, said in a discussion hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies that Beijing's main purpose with its military exercises was to establish a "new normal".

https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/china-to-press-on-with-drills-around-taiwan-as-us-relations-nosedive/news-story/1c0023f1d8230fab54facefde8ddc716

🇨🇳 🚀 Chinese state media reports say that the reusable spaceplane was launched sometime on the night of August 4-5, 2022, via a Long March 2F rocket fired from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert, and successfully entered orbit. The U.S. Space Force and independent observers subsequently confirmed the launch .

“The test spacecraft will be in orbit for a period of time before returning to the scheduled landing site in China, during which reusable and in-orbit service technology verification will be carried out as planned to provide technical support for the peaceful use of space,” Chinese authorities said regarding this new spaceplane test, according to a machine translation of a report today from state-run outlet Xinhua .

📎 The Drive

🚨 Plans have been made by the Establishment and current gov to arrest Imran Khan in the next few days. 🇵🇰

🚨 Imran Khan house is now surrounded by Police forces

🚨 Mobile services around Bani Gala (Imran Khan residence) have been suspended

🚨 Police have blocked entry of other residents who live in the same area.

🚨 The Forces are ready to move in and are waiting for the orders from top. For now, the area will be kept surrounded and there will be no IN’s or OUT’s.

🚨 There are 4000 Police personnel’s around Imran Khan residence. 🇵🇰

🚨 Its hard to get any video related updates of the situation right now as Police has installed Jammers which have completely blocked networks in the entire area.

A resident of Bani Gala talks about how no one is allowed to leave the area and the heavy police deployment, the presence of water cannons and prison vans

🚨 This was earlier today in Morning when the deployment started.

🇵🇰 Another video of Bani Gala, earlier. Heavy police presence and news vans spotted.