Taipei:
Taiwan has recorded more than 600 Chinese sorties into its air defence identification zone (ADIZ) so far this year.
Chinese military aircraft began flying into Taiwan’s ADIZ in March 2019, as per a report submitted to the Legislative Yuan on Tuesday.
There have been 380 incursions in the southwest corner of Taiwan’s ADIZ, Taiwan News reported.
Since mid-September of last year, Beijing has stepped up its grey-zone techniques by often sending planes into Taiwan’s ADIZ, with most situations occurring in the southwest corner of the zone and normally consisting of one to 3 slow-flying turboprop planes.
Beijing claims complete sovereignty more than Taiwan, a democracy of virtually 24 million individuals positioned off the southeastern coast of mainland China, in spite of the truth that the two sides have been governed separately for more than seven decades.
Taipei, on the other hand, has countered the Chinese aggression by rising strategic ties with democracies such as the US, which has been repeatedly opposed by Beijing. China has threatened that “Taiwan’s independence” implies war.
On June 1, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to comprehensive reunification with self-ruled Taiwan and vowed to smash any attempts at formal independence for the island.
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