Taiwan says 103 Chinese warplanes flew toward the island in a new daily high in recent times
in a 24-hour period in what the island’s defense ministry said Monday was the most for a day in recent times.
The planes were detected between 6 a.m. on Sunday and 6 a.m. on Monday, the ministry said. As is customary, they turned back before reaching Taiwan. China, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory, has conducted increasingly large military drills in the air and waters around Taiwan as tensions have grown between the two and with the United States. The U.S. is Taiwan’s main supplier of arms and opposes any attempt to change Taiwan’s status by force.
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said that 40 of the planes crossed the symbolic halfway point between mainlandThe ministry called the Chinese military action “harassment” that it warned could escalate in the current tense atmosphere. “We urge the Beijing authorities to bear responsibility and immediately stop such kind of destructive military activities,” it said in a statement.
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