Photo: screenshot from the video released by PLA Southern Theater Command

On March 29, naval and air units of the PLA Southern Theater Command conducted readiness patrols in the territorial sea and airspace of China’s Huangyan Dao and its surrounding areas. Huangyan Dao is an inalienable part of China’s territory. Since March, naval and air units of the Southern Theater Command have enhanced readiness patrols in the territorial sea and airspace of Huangyan Dao and its surrounding areas, and carried out tracking, monitoring, warning and expelling operations in accordance with laws and regulations. Such patrols serve as an effective countermeasure to cope with all sorts of rights-violation and provocative acts. They are meant to resolutely safeguard China’s territorial sovereignty and uphold peace and stability in the South China Sea.