US EditionChina Sends Scores of Planes Across Central Line in Taiwan Strait
- Over the course of Thursday night into the early hours of Friday, China sent 74 military planes toward Taiwan, with 61 crossing the Taiwan Strait’s median line.
- This action followed the British Royal Navy's HMS Spey patrolling the Taiwan Strait a day earlier, an operation China condemned as destabilizing.
- Chinese aircraft, including unmanned drones and combat jets, were supported by six naval vessels, prompting Taiwan to respond by deploying its own fighter aircraft, warships, and missile defense systems.
- Between June 18 and 20, Taiwan detected a combined total of 75 sorties conducted by Chinese military aircraft, representing the most intense activity since last autumn, while the United Kingdom confirmed that its naval passage complied with international maritime law.
- The incidents illustrate growing regional tensions, with Taiwan encouraging allied transits to uphold peace and China maintaining readiness to counter what it calls foreign provocations.
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China flies jets near Taiwan after British warship sails strait
China sharply increased military activity near Taiwan this week. Beijing sent dozens of warplanes across the median line of the Taiwan Strait just days after a British warship passed through the sensitive waterway. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry reported Friday, June 20, 50 Chinese military aircraft operating around the island, with 46 crossing the median line that separates Chinese and Taiwanese airspace. https://twitter.com/MoNDefense/status/19358…
The Chinese government said on Friday, June 20, that the Taiwanese authorities “can’t change the reality that Taiwan is a part of China,” after the island’s executive reported today the largest number of incursions by Chinese aircraft in the last eight months. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun declared today in a press conference that the authorities of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (PDP, the island’s ruler) “can’t change the…
Taiwan has detected 74 Chinese flying planes around the main island over 30 hours, announced Friday the Taiwanese Defence Ministry. So-called Chinese military invasion comes two days after a British ship crossed the Taiwan Strip, reports ABC News.
China Sends Scores of Planes across Central Line in Taiwan Strait
China sent 74 warplanes toward Taiwan, 61 of which crossed the central line in the Taiwan Strait that unofficially divides the sides, an unusually large number as tensions remained heightened in the region.
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