China conducts second greatest incursion into Taiwan's defence zone

China conducts second greatest incursion into Taiwan’s defence zone

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31st May, 2022. 10:54 am
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China has made the second greatest intrusion into Taiwan’s air defence zone this year, with Taipei claiming 30 planes, including more than 20 fighters, entered the territory.

Taiwan’s defence ministry said late Monday that it has scrambled its own planes and deployed air defence missile systems to keep an eye on China’s latest moves.

Beijing has begun sending huge sorties into Taiwan’s defence zone in recent years to express discontent and to put Taipei’s ageing fighter force under frequent stress.

Democratic self-rule Taiwan is constantly threatened by invasion by China, which regards the island as its own and has sworn to conquer it, by force if necessary, one day.

Last week, the US accused Beijing of inflaming tensions over the island, citing aircraft intrusions as an example of “increasingly aggressive language and conduct,” according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Blinken’s comments come after US President Joe Biden appeared to defy decades of US policy when he indicated during a visit to Japan that if Taiwan was invaded by China, Washington would support it militarily.

The White House, on the other hand, has emphasized that its policy of “strategic ambiguity” on whether or not to act has not altered.

The invasion on Monday was the greatest since a total of 39 planes crossed the air defence identification zone, or ADIZ, on January 23.

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