Taipei: China has carried out the second largest attack on the Taiwan air defense zone this year with Taipei reported 30 jet entering the area, including more than 20 fighters.
The Taiwan Ministry of Defense said on Monday night that they had ruffled their own aircraft and mobilized the air defense missile system to monitor the latest Chinese activities.
In recent years, Beijing has begun to send a large sort to the Taiwan defense zone to give a signal of dissatisfaction, and to maintain the Taipei combat fleet regularly emphasized.
Taiwan Democrats who are governed by themselves live under the threat of continuous invasion by China, which views the island as its territory and has sworn to one day using it, by force if necessary.
The United States last week accused Beijing of increasing tension on the island, with State Secretary Antony Blinken specifically mentioning aircraft attacks as an example of “increasingly provocative rhetoric and activity”.
Blinken’s statement came after US President Joe Biden seemed to solve the US policy decade when in response to questions about a visit to Japan, he said Washington would defend Taiwan militarily if attacked by China.
But the White House has insisted on the “strategic ambiguity” policy of whether it will intervene or not change.
Monday’s news was the largest since January 23, when 39 aircraft entered the air defense identification zone, or Adiz.
Adiz is not the same as Taiwan’s territorial airspace but covers a much larger area that overlaps with the part of the Chinese air defense identification zone itself and even covers several land.
The flight map provided by the Taiwan Ministry of Defense shows that aircraft enter the southwest corner of Adiz before returning again.
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Last year, Taiwan recorded 969 attacks by Chinese fighter aircraft to its Adiz, according to the AFP database – more than doubled around 380 which was carried out in 2020.
The most aircraft sent by China in one day was 56 on October 4, 2021.
The month saw a record of 196 attacks, most of the Chinese National Day celebrations.
So far in 2022 Taiwan has reported 465 attacks, an increase of almost 50 percent in the same period last year.
A large number of Sorti have placed the Air Force under a great pressure, and has suffered a series of fatal accidents in recent years.
On Tuesday, local media reported that a pilot had died after crashing into a coach’s jet in South Kaohsiung.
This is not the first deadly accident this year-in January one of the most sophisticated fighter jets in Taiwan, F-16V, falls into the sea.
Last March, Taiwan landed all military aircraft after a pilot died and the other was lost when their fighters collided in the air in the third fatal accident in less than six months.
