TAIWAN on Friday said 25 Chinese military planes crossed into its defense zone, the same day BEIJING marked the founding of the People’s Republic of CHINA and its biggest incursion there in months.
According to reports, the show of force on CHINA’s National Day near the self-ruled democratic island, which BEIJING claims as part of its territory, came in the same week it accused BRITAIN of sending a warship to the Taiwan Strait with “evil intentions”.
TAIWAN’s defense ministry said it scrambled its aircraft to broadcast warnings Friday after 22 Chinese fighters, two nuclear-capable bombers, and one anti-submarine aircraft entered the island’s southwest Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).
Findings reveal that CHINA often sends military aircraft into Taiwan’s air defense zone to display displeasure and last week it flew 24 planes into the zone after TAIWAN applied to join a major trans-Pacific trade pact.
CHINA’s authoritarian leaders have vowed to one day seize TAIWAN, by force if necessary.
