Focus Taiwan
Date: 06/25/2020
By: Matt Yu and Emerson Lim

Taipei, June 25 (CNA) Three American military aircraft were seen Thursday flying over the Bashi Channel, a strategic waterway south of Taiwan that is used by Chinese submarines sailing from Hainan Province into the Pacific.

Images posted on Twitter by aircraft trackers Golf9 and the South China Sea Probing Initiative (SCSPI) showed two United States reconnaissance aircraft and a transport plane over the Bashi Channel on Thursday morning.

Shih Shun-wen (史順文), spokesman for Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense (MND), declined to comment on the appearance of the U.S. military planes, saying only that the ministry is fully aware of any movements by foreign military around Taiwan.

According to Golf9, an American RC-135U Combat Sent reconnaissance aircraft departed Kadena Air Base in Japan Thursday morning, flying past Taiwan's southeastern coast and heading out over the South China Sea.    [FULL  STORY]