2023-12-23 13:43:51
A fighter plane of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force while performing a “coercive” maneuver EFE/US Department of Defense / Alexander Kubitza
Taiwan authorities reported this Saturday that they have detected ten aircraft from the Chinese Armed Forces that have entered the island’s air defense identification zone.
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“We have detected aircraft including J-10, J-11, J-16, Y-8, KJ-500, ten of which have crossed the median,” the Ministry of Defense announced on its X social network account. in relation to your security line.
Taiwanese authorities have deployed several air and sea patrols to monitor the situation, in addition to several ground missile systems, according to a statement.
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The situation around Taiwan worsened last year, after the visit of the now former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, which was followed by a visit to Washington by a Taiwanese delegation.
An aircraft in military tests of the Chinese Army. Eastern Theater Command/Handout via REUTERS
Ties between China and the island of Taiwan, which it considers another province under its sovereignty, were severed in 1949, after the forces of the nationalist Kuomintang party suffered defeat in the civil war against the Communist Party and moved to the archipelago. Relations were reestablished only at a business and informal level in the late 1980s.
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This Saturday’s deployment takes place after the chiefs of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States and China, Generals Charles Q. Brown and Lui Zhenli, held late this past Thursday the first conversation in more than a year between two military commanders of his level and also the first since General Brown took office.
General Liu insisted that “the Taiwan question is a purely internal matter of China that will not allow any external interference” and that “the Chinese Army will resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” reported the official Chinese newspaper ‘Global Times’. .
Likewise, and in reference to the tensions between China and neighboring countries over the Indo-Pacific region, the Chinese general has recommended to his counterpart that “the United States must seriously respect China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights” and invited him to “speak and act cautiously and safeguard regional peace and stability as well as the overall situation of China-US relations with practical actions.”
(With information from Europa Press)
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