Taipei Times
Date: Dec 25, 2016
By: Staff writer, with CNA

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on Friday visited the Air Force Combatant Command to review the air

force’s training and exercise operations, the Presidential Office said in a statement yesterday.

It was Tsai’s first publicized visit to an air force facility since Chinese military aircraft were detected near Taiwan’s airspace twice in the past few weeks.

Besides listening to a report by commander Hsiung Hou-chi (熊厚基), Tsai also inspected the command’s air traffic control center and spoke with F-16 pilots on a mission, according to the statement.

Tsai praised the command, headquartered in Taipei’s Dazhi District (大直), for its excellent performance in ensuring air superiority in the Taiwan Strait and reaffirmed that “monitoring and protecting the security of the nation’s air space” was the air force’s top priority, the statement said.    [FULL  STORY]