CHINA-PLA: PLA CARRIES OUT AMPHIBIOUS AND BEACH LANDING EXERCISES ON SOUTHERN FUJIAN COAST

Reuters reported (October 11) that the PLA had carried out beach landing and assault drills in the province directly across the sea from Taiwan. It said that in a brief report on its Weibo microblogging account, the official People's Liberation Army Daily newspaper said the drills had been carried out "in recent days" in the southern part of Fujian province. The PLA Daily added that the action had involved "shock" troops, sappers and boat specialists. Troops were "divided into multiple waves to grab the beach and perform combat tasks at different stages". It provided no further details. It showed a video of soldiers in small boats storming a beach, throwing smoke grenades, breaking through barbed wire defenses and digging trenches in the sand. The drills appeared to involve a small number of troops. (Comment: China routinely carries out military exercises up and down its coast as well as in the disputed South China Sea.)





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