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Amid rising tensions between the West and China, various Chinese military aircraft, including fighters, bombers, early warning and reconnaissance aircraft, all entered the Taiwan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) and held an armed demonstration. The scale of this flight is the largest since the Ministry of Defense of Taiwan began to announce the daily flight status of Chinese military aircraft last year.
According to the Taiwanese Central News Agency on the 27th, the Ministry of Defense of Taiwan announced that a total of 20 Chinese military aircraft had entered the air defense identification zone in southwestern Taiwan the day before.
Chinese military aircraft entering Taiwan’s air defense identification zone are 10 J-16 fighters, 2 J-10 fighters, 4 H-6K bombers, 1 KJ-500 early warning, 2 Y-8 anti-submarines, and Y-8 technology. One reconnaissance plane. Among them, the H-6K bomber is a large-scale aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
Chinese military planes flew around Taiwan in a flight that seemed to encircle the south. Some military aircraft flew south of Taiwan to the Basi Strait between Taiwan and Luzon Island in the Philippines, Taiwan said.
However, it did not cross the midline of the Taiwan Strait, which is considered to be the real boundary between China and Taiwan.
The armed protests in China on this day came in the midst of intensifying conflict between the United States and China over Taiwan’s democracy, Hong Kong autonomy, and controversy over human rights abuses in Xinjiang, China.
The Taiwan Air Force had temporarily suspended all training flights on the 22nd when two F-5E fighters collided during training and crashed into the sea.
In response to an armed demonstration by the Chinese military, Taiwan switched air defense missiles into action and warned Chinese military aircraft by radio.
A source from Taiwan told Reuters that the Chinese military had been training assuming US naval battleships crossing the Basi Strait.
Taiwanese media analyzed that the scale of entry of Chinese military aircraft into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone was the largest ever, and that the US and Taiwan held an armed demonstration against the public signing of a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the maritime sector the day before.
Ingrid Larson, director of the American Association of Taiwan (AIT), the US embassy in Taiwan, and Xiao Mei-chin, Taiwan’s representative to the United States, signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the maritime sector at Washington DC on the 25th (local time).
This is the first time that the US government of Joe Biden, which was launched in January, has been promoting official cooperation with the Taiwanese government. Came out.
China is launching a massive armed demonstration whenever the United States and Taiwan make close steps. On September 18 and 19 last year, when the Vice Minister of State at the time of Krak was visiting Taiwan, China sent 18 and 20 military aircraft to Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, respectively, and held a massive armed demonstration.
On January 24, immediately after the inauguration of the US administration of Biden, the Chinese military mobilized 12 fighters and bombers to demonstrate armed forces over ADIZ.
Su-Zi, a scholar at Taiwan’s Defense Security Research Institute, accused Taiwan’s central news agency, “This action will self-prove China’s threat theory and will put the country into a more diplomatic predicament.”
Reporter Bae Jae-seong [email protected]
