Taiwan’s government has condemned China’s war games.
Over the past four years, China has staged regular military activities around Taiwan as it seeks to pressure the island’s government.
On Sunday, Taiwan’s defence ministry said the garrison on Erdan islet, part of the Taiwan-controlled Kinmen islands that sit next to China’s Xiamen and Quanzhou cities, had discovered a “crude” cardboard box containing paper with political slogans on it, written in the simplified Chinese characters used in China.
The ministry said the box was suspected of being dropped by a drone outside the line of sight, adding, “It is a typical cognitive operation trick.”
In 2022, Taiwan shot down a drone off Kinmen after complaining of days of harassment.
China’s defence ministry did not answer calls outside of office hours.
China’s military has kept up a barrage of propaganda videos and animations directed at Taiwan since the exercises began.
Its Eastern Theatre Command, which ran the drills, showed a video on Sunday of rockets firing in what it referred to in English as “cross-strait lethality”.
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