The Taiwan authorities reported this Saturday that they have detected the presence of 23 fighter jets and five 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 five ships and 23 aircraft was recorded around Taiwan and has highlighted that 20 of them have crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and have entered from the north, center, east and southwest, in the air defense identification zone of the island.
Thus, 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 has worsened since last year, following a visit by former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which was followed by 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.
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