Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday it had spotted 66 Chinese military aircraft and seven Chinese naval vessels circling the island in the past 24 hours, marking China’s largest incursion into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) in 2024.
Taiwanese officials said 56 Chinese planes crossed the median line in the Taiwan Strait, once considered an informal buffer zone that neither side should cross to avoid misunderstandings and escalating conflict. publicly stated They announced that they would no longer respect the median line in April 2023.
Taiwan Ministry of National Defense I got it. Some of the Chinese ships and aircraft Military Exercises Related to aircraft carriers Shandong. At least the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) did not go out of its way to avoid passing through Taiwan’s ADIZ when gathering forces for naval exercises.
Ministry of Defense Published There are several photos of Chinese aircraft, including the advanced J-16 Hidden Dragon fighter jet and the nuclear-capable H-6 bomber.
“The military has detailed knowledge of Chinese Communist Party activities in the waters around the Taiwan Strait, including aircraft and vessels,” the ministry said, without saying whether the photo was a new one taken on Wednesday.
Su Tzu-yun, a military expert at Taiwan’s Institute for Defense and Security Studies, said Wednesday and Thursday’s incursions were the biggest since China’s sulky invasion. Aggressive military exercises to “punish” the island for electing William Lai Chin-teh as its president in May.
Su Said Voice of America News (VOA) reported that China has again gone into punitive mode, reacting angrily to Lai’s comments. meeting On Wednesday, he met with Raymond Green, the new president of the American Institute of Taiwan (AIT), which informally serves as the Taiwan Embassy in the United States, with Green serving as the de facto new ambassador.
Greene told Lai that the United States is committed to strengthening the “already rock-solid” U.S.-Taiwan relationship and helping Taiwan defend itself. Su suggested China would send military aircraft and ships around Taiwan to “express its discomfort” with China’s support for Taiwan.
Taiwan’s Defense Minister Wellington Koo said at the time China sent the aircraft carrier: Shandong To take part in the Chinese naval exercises, the carrier did not pass through the Bashi Channel south of Taiwan that Chinese ships normally use to head to the Pacific, but instead passed through the Balintang Strait further south, closer to the Philippines, another neighbor that concerns China. Work Hard Recently intimidating.
