Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy sailors on the deck of the Qinzhou missile frigate. File photoBEJING, Aug 17From August 17 to 19, China is conducting military exercises in several areas of the Yellow Sea near the coast of Shandong Province in the east of the country, according to a statement from the PRC Maritime Security Administration. (12.00 Moscow time) On August 19, military exercises will be held in part of the Yellow Sea. The passage of ships in the areas, the coordinates of which are given on the agency's website, is prohibited during the exercise.Taiwan called Chinese army exercises around the island a dangerous provocationOn Tuesday, the Chinese army conducted exercises in five zones of the South China Sea off the coast of Guangdong Province, and on Monday in the area of the Penghu Islands located in the southern part of the Taiwan Strait.Active exercises of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) in various areas, including the sea area and airspace around Taiwan, have not stopped since the beginning of the month, they became a response to the visits of American delegations to the island, on August 2-3, a delegation led by Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, and August 14-15 — a group led by Senator Ed Markey. Official relations between Beijing and the island province were interrupted in 1949, after the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek, defeated in a civil war with the Communist Party of China, moved to Taiwan. Business and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties began to contact through non-governmental organizations — the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Cross-Strait Exchange Foundation. air base «Udon» began joint exercises of the Air Force of Thailand and China
