Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/17
By: Lu Hsin-hui and William Yen

Taipei, Dec. 17 (CNA) Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) military reconnaissance and

Photo courtesy of the Ministry of National Defense

electronic warfare aircraft circled Taiwan Sunday, flying through the Bashi Channel, which separates Taiwan from the Philippines, and then through the Miyako Strait, between Japan’s Miyako and Okinawa Islands, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND).

According to a MND press release, National Defense Minister Feng Shih-kuan (馮世寬) took command at the joint operations command center and monitored naval and aerial intelligence on the PLA aircraft maneuvers.

While planes and ships were dispatched to safeguard Taiwan’s sea and airspace, the MND reassured the people of Taiwan that the situation was under control, according to the MND.
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