A total of 37 aircraft and eight Chinese military vessels carried out raids on Monday in areas around Taiwan, reported the The island’s Ministry of Defense.
The military ministry explained on the social network Twitter that twelve of the Chinese planes crossed the middle line of the Strait of Formosa, which in practice is an unofficial border tacitly respected by Taipei and Beijing in recent decades, but has been crossed in recent weeks by Chinese forces during military exercises.
J-fighters11, SU-30 and J-11 crossed the midline in its southwestern and northern part.
The island’s air forces monitored the situation with combat and naval air patrols and ground-based missile systems to scare off to the Chinese aircraft of the Taiwanese ADIZ, which is not defined or regulated by any international treaty and is not equivalent to its airspace.
The incursions of military aircraft of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA, Chinese Army) in the Taiwanese ADIZ increased considerably from the end of 2021 and have become even more frequent as a result of the trip by the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to the island at the beginning of August, a visit that angered Beijing.
China responded to Pelosi’s trip, which it described as a “farce” and “deplorable betrayal”, with commercial sanctions on the island and with military maneuvers around Taiwan that Taipei described as a “blockade”.
Last Sunday, two US Navy warships sailed into the international waters of the Taiwan Strait, as a result of which Beijing accused the United States of “deliberately undermining regional peace and stability ”.
China insists on “reunifying” the People’s Republic with the island, which governs autonomously since the nationalists of the Kuomintang (KMT) withdrew there in 1949 after losing the civil war against the communists and continued with the ROC regime, culminating in the transition to democracy to in the decade of 1990.
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