The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command on April 2 conducted military exercises code-named "Strait Thunder-2025A" in the middle and southern areas of the Taiwan Strait, said a spokesperson.

The exercises focus on subjects of identification and verification, warning and expulsion, and interception and detention to test the troops' capabilities of area regulation and control, joint blockade and control, and precision strikes on key targets, according to Senior Colonel Shi Yi, spokesperson for the theater command.