Financial Times:

Chinese military aircraft simulated missile attacks on a nearby U.S. aircraft carrier during an incursion into Taiwan’s air defense zone, three days after Joe Biden’s inauguration, according to intelligence from the U.S. and its allies.

The People’s Liberation Army sent 11 aircraft into the south-western corner of Taiwan’s air defense zone on January 23, and 15 aircraft into the same area the next day, according to Taiwan’s defense ministry.

People familiar with intelligence collected by the U.S. and its allies said that the bombers and some of the fighter aircraft involved were conducting an exercise that used a group of U.S. Navy vessels, led by the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, in the same area, as a simulated target.

Pilots of H-6 bombers could be heard in cockpit conversations confirming orders for the simulated targeting and release of anti-ship missiles against the carrier, the people said…

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