Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense (MND) has consistently published records of Chinese naval and air force activities for several years, enabling the world to realize the military situation on the Taiwan Strait.

However, since the MND provides illustrative diagrams of the People's Liberation Army air activities and aircraft types, most observers have focused primarily on the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) maneuvers around Taiwan. Consequently, the maneuvers of the People's Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN) have been relatively underexplored and, in some cases, even overlooked.