Taiwan’s defense ministry announced on Saturday that it had discovered 33 fighter jets and 10 Chinese army warships near the island.
Twelve aircraft crossed the island’s airspace, so the Taiwanese armed forces monitored the situation and responded with the deployment of aircraft, ships and land-based missile systems, the defense ministry reported on the social network Twitter.
33 PLA aircraft and 10 PLAN ships around Taiwan were detected today at 6 am (UTC+8). ROC forces have been monitoring the situation and have ordered CAP aircraft, naval vessels and land-based missile systems to respond to these activities. pic.twitter.com/wCAm3gh72O
– 國防部 Ministry of National Defense, ROC (@MoNDefense) May 27, 2023
The escalation of tensions in the region began last August with the trip to the island of then-Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and worsened after the visit of Taiwan’s leader Tsai Ing-wen. , to the US, where he met several US congressmen, despite warnings from Beijing.
China and Taiwan have been living autonomously since 1949, when the nationalist government of the then Republic of China sought refuge on the island after the victory of the Chinese Communist Party in the civil war.
The Beijing regime considers Taiwan a rebel province and threatens to take it by force if the island, with a population of about 24 million, formally declares independence.
Source: DN
