China Navy. File photoBEJING, Jun 1China's armed forces conducted joint multi-arms patrols near Taiwan, a necessary step amid collusion between Washington and Taipei, Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Combat Command Zone spokesman Shi Yi said on Wednesday. «Eastern Combat Command Zone The People's Liberation Army of China recently organized a joint patrol of various branches and branches of the armed forces to ensure combat readiness in the sea and airspace near the island of Taiwan, these are necessary actions against the US-Taiwan collusion,» said Shi Yi, whose statement was published on the official account. PLA Eastern Combat Command Zone on WeChat. He stressed that the United States has repeatedly taken steps regarding the Taiwan issue lately — saying one thing and doing another, secretly and openly inciting and supporting the pro-independence forces of the island, which can put Taiwan in dangerous Oddly enough, the United States itself will face serious consequences in this case. Patrolling off Taiwan took place against the backdrop of a visit to the island by US Senator Tammy Duckworth. The senator is in Taiwan from May 30 to June 1 as part of a tour of the Indo-Pacific region, on Tuesday she met with the head of the administration of the island, Cai Ing-wen. Official relations between the central government of the PRC and its island province broke off in 1949, after in a civil war with the Chinese Communist Party, the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek 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. China warns US of danger of supporting separatists in Taiwan
