Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said that over the past day, 13 Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft and three ships crossed the so-called “median line” of the Taiwan Strait.
“From Friday April 7 at 6 a.m. to Saturday April 8 at 6 a.m., 13 aircraft and three Chinese People’s Liberation Army ships were observed around Taiwan,” the ministry’s Twitter account said in a statement.
According to the Taiwanese Defense Ministry, a Y-8 anti-submarine aircraft, an Su-30 multirole fighter and two J-16 fighters were approaching the island. According to a statement from the military department, the Taiwanese armed forces have sent air and sea forces. patrols to monitor the situation in response, and also deployed ground-based missile systems.
Previously, Chinese authorities imposed sanctions on the American Hudson Institute and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in connection with the transit of Taiwanese chief of staff Tsai Ing-wen through United States territory. The Chinese Foreign Ministry noted that the institutions “provided a platform for Tsai Ing-wen’s separatist activities”, stressing that in this way Washington seriously violated the “one China” principle and the relevant agreements with Beijing, and thereby “causing serious damage to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the PRC.”
Taiwan Defense Ministry tracked 13 Chinese military aircraft and 3 ships near the island in one day
