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Ministry of National Defense Routine Press Briefing, Early May 2026

2026年5月上旬国防部例行新闻发布

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At the May 9 MND press briefing, Spokesperson Jiang Bin confirmed the delivery of the lead Qilin-class conventional submarine to Pakistan at Sanya, acknowledged the PLAN's assembly of a complete carrier air wing—stealth fighters, catapult-launched multi-role fighters, fixed-wing AEW aircraft, electronic warfare aircraft, and anti-submarine helicopters—and defended recent PLA joint combat-readiness patrols around Taiwan, including main combat vessel formations entering waters southwest of the Penghu Islands. The submarine delivery confirmation and the explicit official endorsement of the 'carrier five-piece set' framing are notable: both represent the MND publicly validating capability milestones that Beijing has previously left to media inference, signaling deliberate messaging about the maturation of PLAN carrier strike and power-projection capacity. The Taiwan patrol remarks, denying the existence of the strait median line and linking operations directly to senior Taiwan officials' overseas travel, reinforce an established pattern of using military signaling as a coercive response to perceived political provocation.

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Source text. CMC Political Work Department. "2026年5月上旬国防部例行新闻发布." PLA Daily (解放军报), 2026-05-09. http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16459585.html.

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