The two videos focus on Taiwan and its de facto sovereignty as a nation state. We've got artillery and tanks.
The first is an official state arrival/welcome ceremony by the armed forces ceremonial guard of all Taiwan military services, held in Chiang Kai-shek Square & Tomb in central Taipei, the capital city of the Republic of China, Taiwan. While the details are in the headlines immediately below, ie, focused on the ceremonial 21 gun Artillery salute, the occasion reminds us Taiwan is a democratic and de facto sovereign nation state only. The popular reelected Pres. Tsai Ing-wei is host to the President of the fellow sovereign republic, of Giribat.
The second video in scrolling shows us Army tanks rolling through the civilian roads and ways on their return from the normal Coastal Repel Exercises on the western shore of Taiwan, ie, the side of the sovereign island nation facing the CCP mainland. Indeed, we see in the video the normal for the people of Taiwan and their armed forces, ie, tanks and other military vehicles trucking their public roads to include tanks rolling under their nose in off road community housing. This is how Taiwan people have to live because of the inherently malevolent Chinese Communist Party and its malicious military arm, the PLA.
Taiwan Army Ceremonial Artillery Battery | Fires 21 Gun Salute | Official State Welcome Ceremony
Republic of Giribat President Tang Annuo Tong | Chiang Kai-shek Square and Tomb | Central Taipei Capital Republic of China.
Host Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wei | Armed Forces Joint Honor Guard & Band | Public Invited
We don't get to see the two presidents until after the 21 gun salute by the Army Ceremonial Artillery Battery, and only from a distance, as the video crew is with and focused on the precision and alert sharpness of the ceremonial Artillery Battery.
The Ceremonial Battery has the same protocol as the US Army Old Guard Presidential Salute Battery, ie, an nco with a card showing the number of gun fires that he checks off beginning with the highest number of fires for each specific occasion, a caller who commands the fires each 3 seconds by his stopwatch, and an OIC commanding the event.
Convoy Taiwan Army Armor Company of M-60-A3 Main Battle Tanks | M-88-A1 Support Vehicles Convoy | Return to Base | Coastal Firing Range Exercises
Oct 16, 2021 | 22 Tanks & Support Vehicles | Caravan led by Civilian & Military Police | Kinmen Highway | Civilians Clear The Way Ha
Armored Company of 4 Platoons | Two Platoons Take One Route | Two Platoons Take Parallel Route | Two Platoons & Command Tank (11) In Each Column
The first two armored platoons we see, 11 in total to include the command tank, use the main road, Kinmen Highway which is awesome enough as it is. But then at 4:30 the second column we see of 11 MBT to include the command tank emerge out of off road residential housing to include being right under resident's noses, to follow at a distance the main column we see first, on Kinmen Highway.
For a small convenience to the civilian population of Taiwan, laws restrict the number of tanks and other military vehicles in a column. So this armored company travels in two separate columns of 11 tanks each to include the command tank. The law also specifies each column utilizing public roads have a repair/tow vehicle, and ambulance and escort by each civilian and military police. The law also requires citizen traffic by vehicle, motorcycle, bicycle, on foot in residential areas yield immediately to the military vehicles.
I've also seen btw and have in the posting bank videos of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and other military support vehicles positioned permanently between buildings including residences throughout Taiwan. Locals residents are interviewed as they smile stoically and accept their circumstance. Troops are housed every several blocks in apartment buildings to immediately man the vehicles that they maintain and take out for a spin on a regular schedule.
Taiwan people btw call tanks chariots.
Life on Taiwan.
