Taipei Times
Date: May 26, 2018
By: Staff writer, with CNA
Taiwan yesterday closely monitored a long-range military drill staged by China, during
A Taiwanese F-16 fighter jet, left, monitors one of two Chinese H-6 bombers that flew over the Bashi Channel yesterday. Photo: AFP/Ministry of National Defense
which Xian H-6K strategic bombers flew over the Bashi Channel, the Air Force Command Headquarters of the Ministry of National Defense said.
Two Chinese aircraft flew over the Bashi Channel, the waterway to the south of Taiwan, at about 4am yesterday and entered the Miyako Strait, which lies between the Japanese islands of Miyako and Okinawa, the air force said in a statement.
The two Xian H-6K strategic bombers were on a long-range air exercise and the air force scrambled F-16 fighter jets to observe them, the statement said.
The air force said it has installed an early warning system that shows every move the Chinese military makes in the region and enables it to respond accordingly.
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