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PLA has never feared any enemy, has confidence, ability to defeat all intruders: Chinese defense chief
Published: Aug 16, 2022 07:32 PM
State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe delivers a speech via video link at the 10th Moscow Conference on International Security on August 16, 2022. Photo: from China's Ministry of National Defense

State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe delivers a speech via video link at the 10th Moscow Conference on International Security on August 16, 2022. Photo from China's Ministry of National Defense


The Chinese army has never feared any enemy and has the confidence and courage to defeat all intruders. We will safeguard China's national security and territorial integrity with staunch determination, firm will and strong ability, vowed Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe at the Moscow Conference on International Security on Tuesday.

Delivering a speech via video link at the 10th Moscow Conference on International Security hosted by the Russian Defense Ministry from August 16 to 17 in Moscow, Wei called for resistance to hegemonic and bullying practices, urging countries to strengthen cooperation, fairness and justice, as well as peace and stability.

China strives to inject stability and positive energy to the cause of mankind's peaceful development but at the same time firmly safeguard its core national interests, Wei emphasized.

"The moves to separate the Taiwan island will definitely come to no good end and external interference is doomed to fail," Wei said, noting that China has firmly opposed, severely condemned and resolutely taken countermeasures in response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent visit to Taiwan island.

China has taken "unprecedented" and "very necessary" countermeasures against Pelosi's highly provocative Taiwan visit. Besides continuous military exercises and training activities around the island, China on August 5th canceled China-US theater commanders' talks, defense policy coordination talks, military maritime security consultative mechanism and suspended cooperation on illegal immigration repatriation, drug control and climate change.

China also announced to sanction Pelosi and her immediate family members on August 5th, followed by sanctions on Lithuania Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications Agnė Vaiciukevičiūtė, who visited the Taiwan region from August 7 to 11, and suspension of all exchange with Lithuanian Ministry of Transport and Communications and of cooperation with Lithuania in the field of international road transport. 

The Chinese People's Liberation Army(PLA)Eastern Theater Command organized multi-unit joint combat readiness patrols and real-combat drills in the sea areas and airspace around the Taiwan island on Monday as a firm response and solemn deterrent to five US lawmakers' visit to the island on Sunday.

The Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee on Tuesday announced sanctions on "Taiwan independence" diehards on Chinese mainland's list, adding more political figures such as Bi-khim Hsiao and Koo Li-hsiung into the list of diehard separatists and banning them and their family members from entering the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao SARs.

Global Times