CCTV News: Colonel Shi Yi, spokesperson of the Eastern Theater Command, said that on April 2, the Eastern Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army organized a Shandong aircraft carrier formation to sit in the sea and airspace east of Taiwan to conduct drills on the subjects such as ship-aircraft coordination, regional air control, and sea-to-land strikes with the navy and air force, focusing on testing the integrated Keterkaitan garis internal dan eksternal, blokade tiga dimensi dan kemampuan tempur bersama dari berbagai cabang militer.
