China Shows Off Its Army And Navy Landing Capabilities After U.S. Senators Visit Taiwan

This screen grab taken from a CCTV broadcast aired on June 7, 2021, shows People's Liberation Army vehicles being loaded onto the deck of Type 072A landing ship Taihangshan ahead of an amphibious assault training exercise off the coast of Fujian province in southeastern China. CCTV

Newsweek: China Shows Off Army, Navy Landing Capabilities After U.S. Senators Visit Taiwan 

The Chinese military released footage of an amphibious transport and beach landing exercise in the seas across from Taiwan a day after three U.S. senators made a highly watched visit to Taipei on the back of a U.S. Air Force freighter. 

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) drill took place at an unspecified time and place off the coast of Fujian province in southeastern China, according to separate reports published Monday by the PLA's Eastern Theater Command and China's state broadcaster CCTV. 

Images showed PLA Army vehicles and troops loading into PLA Navy amphibious landing craft, before being offloaded in the Taiwan Strait and navigating themselves back to a designated beach. 

The training mission involved the 72nd Group Army, usually stationed in Huzhou, Zhejiang, which transported amphibious fighting vehicles and supplies to an imaginary beachhead, according to the reports. 

PLA Army elements that took part in the final "beach assault" had to navigate "complicated condition at sea," said CCTV, which carried images of armored vehicles reversing into the docks of Chinese amphibious warfare vessels. 

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Update #1: China-US tension: state media reports amphibious landing drill after US senators land on Taiwan (AP)  

Update #2: PLA conducts amphibious landing drills amid latest US provocation on Taiwan question (Global Times)  

WNU Editor: China does these military exercises all the time. The only difference now is that they are broadcasting to the world that they are doing it.