China Warplanes Set New Record for Intrusions in Taiwan’s Air Defense Zone

August 18, 2021

Newsweek:



China has set a new annual record for military flights around Taiwan, buzzing the island’s air force radars with nearly 400 planes since the start of the year.

In January, Taiwanese defense officials said they had tracked around 380 People’s Liberation Army aircraft inside the island’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) throughout 2020. Faced with what its Defense Ministry described as the most serious escalation since the Taiwan Strait missile crisis of the mid-1990s, the country began releasing daily intrusion figures last September…



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