Chinese Air Force aircraft spotted north and south of Taiwan Wednesday
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/12/20
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Ministry of National Defense said Wednesday it would no
A Chinese Su-30 (photo courtesy of Dmitriy Pichugin). (By Wikimedia Commons)
longer issue reports about aircraft or ships from China’s People Liberation Army moving close to Taiwan after the latest incidents Wednesday.
Over the past few weeks, Chinese fighter jets have repeatedly flown closely to or even entered Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), resulting to pictures of Chinese jets, supposedly with the island’s best-known mountain peaks in the background. Chinese Navy vessels on their way to or from maneuvers in the Pacific or in the South China Sea also passed close by Taiwan, leading to speculation that the communist country was rehearsing an eventual invasion of the island.
Wednesday saw the 10th incursion of Chinese military aircraft into Taiwan’s ADIZ since the 19th Congress of China’s Communist Party last October, the Apple Daily reported.
The latest Chinese airplane appeared around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, and was met by the immediate takeoff of Taiwanese jets, reports said.