A new escalation of tension in the strait between Taiwan and China has been registered in recent days. This after the complaint from the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense that denounced the presence of 71 planes and five Chinese military ships in the vicinity of the island.
According to the institution, 47 of the People’s Liberation Army airplanes crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait. Among these were twelve J-11 fighter jets, 18 J-16s and six SU-30 fighters.
According to the military portfolio, the island’s air forces monitored the situation with combat air and naval patrols and with missile systems on the ground to scare away Chinese planes from the Taiwanese Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), which is not defined. nor regulated by any international treaty and is not equivalent to its airspace.
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For its part, the Chinese Army explained on Monday that it organized this Sunday “bombing maneuvers” and “alert patrols” in “sea and air zones around the island of Taiwan.”
It was “a resolute response to the recent increase in collusion between Taiwan and the United States,” said Shi Yi, a spokesman for the Eastern Theater of Operations of the Chinese Army, in a statement.
The President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, declared today during an act with the military that “the more united the Taiwanese are, the safer they will be”, while assuring that she will continue working to “defend democracy, freedom and security”. of the island.
Tsai called a high-level security meeting for Tuesday morning to “strengthen the defense system” of the island, the territory’s Presidency office explained today.
The island population remained calm in the face of the incursion of the Chinese planes into the ADIZ, as has been the case in the last two years, a period in which the frequency of the Chinese incursions has increased to such an extent that they have become almost an event. routine for the Taiwanese, whose authorities began reporting such shipments in 2009. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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