TAIPEI, April 19 — Taiwan said today China’s decision to open new air routes that run perilously close to two Taiwanese-controlled islands was a flight safety risk taken...
Taiwan said today China ’s decision to open new air routes that run perilously close to two Taiwan ese-controlled islands was a flight safety risk taken without consultation, adding it will demand any aircraft using them be asked to turn around.
China’s civil aviation regulator said in its brief statement on Friday that those routes were now in operation, adding that from May 16 it would “further optimise” airspace around Fuzhou airport. At its nearest point, close to Kinmen, there is only a 1.1 nautical mile distance between the Chinese and Taiwanese flight paths, it said.Taiwanese air traffic controllers will “strongly request” their Chinese counterparts guide any aircraft away when an aircraft approaches Taiwan’s air space, it said.
But China says it does not recognise the line’s existence and Chinese warplanes now regularly fly over it as Beijing seeks to pressure Taipei to accept its sovereignty claims.
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