Although the entire Western world has entered a state of holiday these two days and has begun to enjoy the last and most important holiday of the year, while celebrating the holidays, Western politicians will not forget to actively carry out provocations against our country.

Although the entire Western world has entered a state of holiday in the past two days and has begun to enjoy the last and most important holiday of the year, while celebrating the holidays, Western politicians will not forget to actively carry out provocations against our country. U.S. President Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 23 on the last day before the double holidays, officially approving money for the US military. The most sensitive part of this bill is of course not approving money for the US military, but once again hyping up the situation in the Straits.

According to this new authorization bill, the US military will be authorized to directly provide active military equipment to the Taiwan military as so-called assistance, and will also provide so-called loans to Taiwan. In short, it is hyping up the Strait issue in an all-round way, and pretending to fully arm the Taiwan military to resist our military's cross-strait military operations. For such direct and undisguised provocations, our military will of course choose to respond directly and targetedly. The naval and air forces in the Eastern Theater Command have launched a new round of targeted joint exercises in the past two days, demonstrating the power of thunder in the form of combat readiness patrols and joint fire strikes.

Judging from the actual scale of this exercise, it is not far behind the one in early August. Both the navy and air force dispatched large-scale forces to carry out the operation. The navy dispatched several main ships to enter the strait and cruise on the sea east of Taiwan Island. The air force and navy The military aviation force also dispatched dozens of aircraft to perform missions. According to the Taiwan Air Force's report, the number of our military aircraft discovered by them alone was as high as 71, including J-10/11/16 and Su-30 Type IV fighters.

Judging from the models of our military aircraft announced by the Taiwan military this time, all the units of the entire Eastern Theater Air Force facing Taiwan should be dispatched collectively. We can recognize at least 6 various types of special aircraft from different fighter aviation brigades and 3 naval and air services. It also included helicopters of the Army Aviation Force and UAVs of the Army Intelligence and Reconnaissance Force. It can be said to be a grand scene involving all elements. According to the Taiwan Air Force's own words, this concentrated dispatch of more than 10 different units, starting with 71 sorties, was an unprecedented large-scale operation faced by the Taiwan Air Force.

Not only the Air Force, but the Navy also acted upon the order this round. Originally, December was an unprecedentedly active month for our navy. The Liaoning fleet is conducting regular ocean training with a number of destroyers and frigates, including three 055s, in the Philippine Sea east of Taiwan Island. During the training, the joint formation of the Chinese and Russian navies was also performing missions in the East China Sea. In addition to the fleets in the South Pacific, etc., the navy was really active everywhere in December. It was still able to dedicate many ships to specially circle the island, which also reflects the strong strength of our navy. Especially after August this year, our navy's naval ship has actually been on duty around Taiwan Island. It has entered a state of endurance and consumption compared with the naval ships on the other side. The preliminary results can be seen in this exercise.

In fact, judging from the relevant promotional materials released by both sides of the Taiwan Strait in the past two days, it can be clearly seen that the Taiwan Navy has shown signs of fatigue after half a year of high-intensity deterrence cruises by our military. In August, when our navy just started regular patrols around the island, the navy on the other side of the coast was still very pursuing and expressed that it would carry out reciprocal surveillance with our military. When our military dispatched anti-aircraft destroyers like the 052D, the Taiwanese military also dispatched large destroyers to conduct surveillance. Waiting for surveillance, our military dispatched advanced frigates like 054A and . The Taiwan Navy also dispatched Kangding or Chenggong class, the latest gas turbine frigates in the Taiwan military. In short, we must drive, drive, protect, and protect face without losing.

But after a few months, our military ships have no problems. They are preparing for combat cruises around Taiwan and treating actual combat drills around the island as a daily task. I will take over when you return to Hong Kong. However, the Taiwan Navy does not have the strength to conduct one-on-one surveillance.Among the series of photos released by our military this time of cruising in the waters around Taiwan, we can see in one photo that the Taiwanese Navy came to monitor the ships with very distinctive identification features, including a towering mast in the middle of the hull. The only ships with such characteristics among the Taiwanese military are the oldest Knox-class or Jiyang-class frigates .

What kind of ships are the Jiyang class? They are second-hand old ships that have been in service with the US military in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The actual condition of the ships has been so bad that they have barely left port in recent years, but now they are forced to use them to make up the numbers. The Taiwan military began to give up peer-to-peer tracking, and began to use it for what it was, and even towed half-century-old ships from the port that barely left the port to make up the numbers. After several months of intensive use, the Taiwan Navy's ships were really overwhelmed, and they needed to be docked for maintenance and rest. They could not find a ship in good condition and matching specifications to respond to another large-scale exercise of our military on a peer-to-peer basis.

The real main force of the Taiwan Navy is the three types of Kidd-class, Success-class, Kangding-class, a total of 20 destroyers and frigates. In the past few months of high-intensity interaction with our military, basically all of them have consumed a lot of money. After all, the frequent starts and stops, frequent course changes, etc. in this kind of mission have caused a lot of losses to the host machine and the ship body. The ships of the Taiwan military are generally not new, and the status of the crews is generally deviated due to limited training. Therefore, after four months of intense torment by our military, they were completely driven away from the frontline of the mission. When our military came to visit Taiwan again for cruise, it was normal that they could not get out of the port. They had to make do with old ships from half a century ago.

This is a very good thing. Relying on our military's newer, better and more durable ships than those on the other side to fight for endurance through normal cruising will consume the last pitiful lifespan of the remaining large and medium-sized ships of the Taiwan Navy, driving them away from the sea around Taiwan forever, so that they can only exist as a fleet in the port for a long time. This is a good thing for our military to perform various military tasks in the future. And this kind of action will inevitably escalate with the continuous provocations of the Americans. Any possible bad consequences will need to be thought about and borne by the Taiwan military itself.