TAIPEI — The Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong passed close to the northern Philippines on its way to drills in the Pacific, Taiwan's Defence Ministry said on July 10, as Taipei reported dozens of warplanes joining the ship for exercises.
A helicopter takes off from China's Shandong aircraft carrier, over Pacific Ocean waters, south of Okinawa prefecture, Japan, in this handout photo taken on April 15.TAIPEI — The Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong passed close to the northern Philippines on its way to drills in the Pacific, Taiwan's Defence Ministry said on July 10, as Taipei reported dozens of warplanes joining the ship for exercises.
Taiwan's Defence Ministry said, starting at around dawn on July 10, it had detected 36 Chinese military aircraft, including J-16 fighters and nuclear-capable H-6 bombers, flying to the south and south-east of the island heading to the Western Pacific to carry out drills with the Shandong. "It went further south, through the Balintang Channel, to the Western Pacific," Koo added, a waterway between the Philippines' Batanes and Babuyan Islands.The Philippine military said it was concerned with the deployment of the Chinese carrier group.
Late on July 9, Japan's Self Defence Forces said they detected the Shandong, along with an escort of two missile destroyers and a frigate, around 500km south of its Okinawa islands. Taiwan holds its annual Han Kuang war games starting July 22, and China has stepped up its own activities ahead of that.
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