Taiwan says China deployed 71 warplanes in weekend war drills
The Hindu
One of the pressure tactics China has increasingly used is probing Taiwan's ADIZ with its warplanes
China deployed 71 warplanes in weekend military exercises around Taiwan, Taipei's defence ministry said Monday, including dozens of fighter jets in one of the biggest daily incursions to date.
The People's Liberation Army said it had conducted a "strike drill" on Sunday in response to unspecified "provocations" and "collusion" between the United States and the self-ruled island.
Data from Taiwan's defence ministry showed those drills were one of the largest since they started releasing daily tallies.
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In a post on Twitter, Taiwan said 60 fighter jets took part in the drills, including six Su-30 warplanes, some of China's most advanced.
Moreover, 47 of the sorties crossed into the island's air defence identification zone (ADIZ), the third-highest daily incursion on record, according to AFP's database.
Chiu Tai-san, head of the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), Taiwan's top China policy-making body, expressed "strong dissatisfaction" at the latest incursions during a parliament session on Monday.
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