Taiwanese authorities announced on Monday that they had detected 39 military aircraft and a chinese aircraft carrier near the island, after the passage of two ships of USA and Canada through the strait Taiwan during this weekend.
Between Sunday and Monday morning, 26 aircraft and 13 military ships They operated around the island. Another 13 airplanes were detected in the early hours of Monday, according to the Taiwanese Ministry of Defending.
The Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong It was also located about 60 nautical miles southeast of the southernmost tip of Taiwan, sailing east and entering the Peaceful western, added the same source.
China considers the self-governed island part of its territory and has promised to retake it one day.
Taiwan declared that 22 of the 39 planes recently detected crossed the median line of the Taiwan Straitan invisible border that separates the island from the mainland.
Median line crossings are generally less frequent than incursions into the air defense identification zone (ADIZ), an area unilaterally defined by countries and in which they ask foreign aircraft to identify themselves for reasons of national security.
“The army is closely monitoring the situation and has tasked aircraft, Navy ships and ground-based missile systems to react,” the ministry said in a statement.
A Chinese military spokesman declared on Saturday that Chinese soldiers remained “in a constant state of high alert” after the passage of two ships from the United States and Canada through the Taiwan Strait.
The US Navy stated that it was the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the “USS Ralph Johnson”and of “NCSM Ottawa”, and that this transit “demonstrates the commitment of the United States, its allies and partners to a free and open Indo-Pacific region”.
“Dangerous maneuvers”
The ministry of Taiwan Foreign Affairs denounced this Sunday that vessels of the regime Xi Jinping carried out “dangerous” and “provocative” maneuvers against the Philippine Coast Guard in a disputed area of South China Sea.
“While Taiwan was dealing with the incursions of the People’s Liberation Army which involved 17 enemy fighters, China and its maritime militia carried out this provocative, unprofessional and unsafe maneuver to support their illegal territorial claim,” wrote the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry through the X social network.
“Taiwan and the Philippines must support each other, since together we are stronger,” added the message from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
According to a statement from the Philippine Coast Guard, the incident occurred during a routine rotation and replenishment mission near the Ayungin sandbankknown in China as Ren’ai reef, and It involved four regime vessels.
This episode comes just weeks after the Philippines accused Chinese coast guard ships of shoot water cannons against their vessels as they attempted to resupply troops stationed on the same sandbar in the Spratly Island chain.
Source-www.infobae.com