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Chinese H-6K bomber. Yunhap news
Amid rising tensions between the West and China, several Chinese military aircraft, including fighters, bombers, reconnaissance and early warning aircraft, entered the Taiwan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) and staged an armed demonstration. The scale of this flight is the largest since the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense began announcing the daily flight status of Chinese military aircraft last year.
According to the Taiwan Central News Agency on the 27th, the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense announced that a total of 20 Chinese military aircraft had entered the air defense identification zone in southwest Taiwan the day before.
The Chinese military aircraft entering Taiwan’s air defense identification zone are 10 J-16 fighters, 2 J-10 fighters, 4 H-6K bombers, 1 KJ-500 early warning, 2 Y-8 anti-submarines and Y technology. -8. reconnaissance aircraft, etc. Among them, the H-6K bomber is a large-scale aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
Chinese military aircraft flew over Taiwan in a flight that appeared to circle the south. Some military aircraft flew south from Taiwan to the Basi Strait between Taiwan and Luzon Island in the Philippines, Taiwan said.
However, it did not cross the middle line of the Taiwan Strait, which is considered the actual boundary between China and Taiwan.
Armed protests in China on this day came amid escalating conflict between the United States and China over Taiwan’s democracy, Hong Kong’s autonomy, and controversy over human rights abuses in Xinjiang, China.
The Taiwan Air Force temporarily suspended all training flights on the 22nd when two F-5E fighters collided during training and crashed into the sea.
In response to an armed demonstration by the Chinese army, Taiwan launched air defense missiles and warned Chinese military aircraft by radio.
A Taiwanese source told Reuters that the Chinese military had been training assuming US naval battleships crossed the Basi Strait.
The Taiwanese media analyzed that the scale of entry of Chinese military aircraft into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone was the largest to date, and that the United States and Taiwan held an armed demonstration against the public signing of a memorandum of understanding. for cooperation in the maritime sector the day. before.
Ingrid Larson, Director of the American Association of Taiwan (AIT), the US Embassy in Taiwan and Taiwanese Representative Xiao Mei-chin signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the maritime sector in Washington DC on the 25th (local time ).
This is the first time that the US government of Joe Biden, which launched in January, has been promoting official cooperation with the Taiwanese government.
China is launching a massive armed demonstration every time the United States and Taiwan take close steps. On September 18 and 19 last year, when the Deputy Minister of State at the time of Krak was visiting Taiwan, China sent 18 and 20 military aircraft to Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, respectively, and held a massive armed demonstration. .
On January 24, immediately after the inauguration of the US administration of Biden, the Chinese military mobilized 12 fighters and bombers to demonstrate the armed forces on ADIZ.
Su-Zi, an academic at the Taiwan Defense Security Research Institute, accused Taiwan’s central news agency: “This action will itself test China’s threat theory and put the country in a more diplomatic situation. “.
Reporter Bae Jae-seong [email protected]
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