Taiwan's Ministry of Defense reported having detected the presence of 68 aircraft and 10 Chinese military ships around the island in the last 24 hours, until 6am local time (midnight in Italy). We read this in a note from Taipei, regarding the latest activities held between Wednesday and this morning by the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

The incursion came just 24 hours after Taipei reported a count of 35 Chinese warplanes, all detected around the island on Wednesday, some of them flying to join the aircraft carrier Shandong, which is engaged in China's largest-ever naval maneuvers. Beijing in the Western Pacific.

Taiwan's armed forces, according to a note from the Ministry of Defense, responded with the deployment of Air Force planes and Navy ships to follow Chinese activities, also mobilizing land-based missile systems to monitor the situation.

Of the total 68 confirmed aircraft in action around the island, 40 (including four SU-30s, twelve J-10s, and sixteen J-16s) crossed the center line of the Taiwan Strait or entered the military air identification zone (Adiz) in an unprecedented south-western or south-eastern trajectory with respect to Taiwan.

(Unioneonline)

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