(Adnkronos) – Beijing today deployed its aircraft carrier Shandong as part of exercises around Taiwan, designed to test its ability to organize a “blockade” of the island. The announcement was made by the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese army, specifying that the Shandong carried out maneuvers that included “naval-air coordination, air superiority in the area and the use of targeted strikes on land and sea targets”. The troops’ capabilities in the “multidimensional blockade and control” of the island were tested, it added.
