With Taiwan's vice-president due to touch down in the US, observers are anticipating that China will take another opportunity to flex its military muscles by sending PLA aircraft across the median line.
abc.net.au/news/chinese-military-aircraft-flights-over-taiwan-adiz-may-increase/102711504Over the next few days, as one of Taiwan's most senior politicians touches down in the United States, observers are anticipating that China could take another opportunity to flex its military muscles.
And with another US trip on the cards by Taiwan's Vice-President William Lai, the frontrunner to be the island's next leader, it appears likely that this activity could kick off again.Taiwan sits about 180 kilometres off the coast of China, near Fuzhou in the south-eastern province of Fujian.
Taiwan's de facto ADIZ includes areas to the south and east of the median line, according to this updated map based on a briefing from Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence in April 2023. "[That month], there were over 300 median line crossings … at the end of July of this year, we hit exactly 1,000 median line crossings, and only 23 of those have been before Nancy Pelosi arrived from Taiwan – so it's been a dramatic shift.
In the past two weeks, the number of PLA aircraft spotted in Taiwan's ADIZ has rarely exceeded 10 per day. Hsiao-Huang Shu, from Taiwan's Institute for National Defense and Security Research, believes it's "inevitable". "What we've seen is that large amounts of combat aircraft, so both fighter jets and bombers, are normally seen in response to a political developments in Taiwan, large and small," he said.
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