Eight Chinese war planes crossed the Taiwan Strait’s median line. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TAIPEI - Eight Chinese war planes crossed the Taiwan Strait’s median line and approached close to the island’s contiguous zone that is 24 nautical miles off its coast on Saturday, the Taiwanese defence ministry said, in a further rise in tensions.Since August, it has regularly sent jets across the strait’s median line, which had previously served as an unofficial barrier.
Taiwan defines its contiguous zone as being 24 nautical miles from its coast. Its territorial space is defined at 12 nautical miles from its coast, though the government has not reported Chinese aircraft entering either the contiguous zone or Taiwan’s territorial air space. Taiwan sent up its own aircraft and dispatched ships in response and activated land-based missile systems, the ministry said, using standard wording for how its forces react to Chinese incursions.On Saturday, the Chinese military’s Eastern Theatre Command, which covers Taiwan, published pictures on its WeChat account of J-16 fighters taking off on a training mission “far out at sea” that happened “recently”.
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