Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/29
By: Hsieh Chia-chen and Y.F. Low

Taipei, Sept. 29 (CNA) Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) on Friday

File photo/Photo courtesy of Ministry of National Defense

declined to comment on a Chinese media report of a close air encounter between military aircraft from the two sides over the Taiwan Strait in 2015.

MND spokesman Chen Chung-chi (陳中吉) said, however, that the military is alert to and on top of situations in Taiwan’s surrounding waters and airspace.

Taiwan can also keep comprehensive track of the movement of China’s military aircraft and will take proper measures to protect the country’s security, he added.    [FULL  STORY]