He Taiwanese government reported this Wednesday a new incursion of Chinese warplanes in the surroundings of its territory, in the middle of the Beijing’s growing military activity in it Taiwan Strait.
From 07:00 local time (23:00 GMT), the Ministry of National Defense (MDN) of Taiwan detected 26 combat aircraft Chinese People’s Liberation Armyincluding hunting J-16transport aircraft Y-8 and drones, “carrying out maritime activities,” indicated the military portfolio it’s a statement.
Of these, 24 crossed the midline. Taiwan Straitan unofficial border that had been respected by Beijing and Taipei for decades, and its extension, “passing near the north, center and south of the island in coordination with ships of the Navy to carry out a “joint patrol of combat preparation”.
“The Taiwanese Armed Forces They used joint means of surveillance and intelligence to maintain strict control, and deployed mission aircraft, ships and ground-based missile systems for an adequate response,” the official text indicated.
He Chinese army has intensified its activity in the narrow following the approval, by the US Department of Stateof the possible sale of a system of combat drones and loitering missiles to Taiwan for a value of $360.2 million (about 336 million euros), which marked the fifteenth sale of weapons to the island by the Administration of the American president, Joe Biden.
Likewise, on June 21, representatives of the Department of State they met in Taipei with officials from the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to address the “meaningful participation” of Taiwan in the system of United Nations and other international forums, according to a statement from the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT, the de facto embassy of Washington in Taipei).
In this context, since last June 18, the MDN reported the presence of a total of 199 Chinese warplanes in the vicinity of the island, of which one hundred and forty crossed the dividing line of the strait or entered the self-proclaimed Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) Taiwanese.
During these maneuvers, the Chinese aircraft surrounded the island on several occasions and they came within just 57 kilometers of the Cape Eluanbiat the southern end of Taiwan.
The chinese authorities They consider that the issue Taiwanese It is the “red line” between Washington and Beijinggiven that USA It is the main supplier of weapons to Taipei and could defend the island in case of conflict.
Taiwan -where he retired chinese nationalist army after the defeat at the hands of communist troops in the civil war (1927-1949) – has been governed autonomously since the end of the war, although China He claims sovereignty over the island, which he considers a rebel province for whose “reunification” he has not ruled out the use of force.
(With information from EFE)
