MADRID, June 23. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Taiwan authorities reported this Sunday that they have detected the presence of 15 fighter jets and six ships of the Chinese Armed Forces in the vicinity of the island within the framework of the escalation of tensions between the parties.
The Taiwanese Ministry of Defense has indicated that around 6:00 a.m. (local time) the presence of six ships and 15 aircraft was recorded around Taiwan and has highlighted that eight of them have crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and have entered from the north and southwest, in the air defense identification zone of the island.
As things stand, the country’s Armed Forces have monitored the situation and have “responded accordingly,” as explained by the authorities through the social network X.
The situation around Taiwan worsened last year, after the visit of the now former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, which was reciprocated with a visit to Washington by a Taiwanese delegation.
From Beijing, the Chinese authorities have reiterated on numerous occasions that Taiwan’s independence will not be tolerated and that they will not rule out the use of force to prevent secession. Ties between China and Taiwan, which it considers another province under its sovereignty, were broken in 1949 after the forces of the nationalist Kuomitang party suffered a defeat in the civil war against the Communist Party and moved to the archipelago. Relations were reestablished only at a business and informal level in the late 1980s.
