Taiwan reports dozens of planes – China is worried with military exercises

Taiwan views aircraft and warships

China worries with massive military exercises

China’s military activities around Taiwan accept threatening dimensions. Taipeih reports the highest number of Chinese aircraft this year near the island.

According to the government, the activity of the Chinese military near Taiwan has increased in Taipei. In the middle of increasing tensions for new military maneuvers, China said that dozens of planes around the self -managed island sent the information.

45 aircraft and 14 warships were discovered in the 24 hours until 6 a.m. on Thursday morning (local time), as the Department of Defense in Taipei announced in its daily record. This is the highest number of Chinese aircraft near the island this year.

China had previously sent 32 aircraft around Taiwan and announced a “gunshot exercise” about 40 nautical miles (around 74 kilometers) off the southern coast of Taiwans. In response to this, Taiwan mobilized his armed forces.

China sees the Democratic Taiwan as a renegade province that is to be reunited with the mainland – if necessary with military violence. Beijing has strengthened its military activities around Taiwan in recent years. Taiwan sees himself as an independent republic and has been self -administered since 1949, today it has a democratically elected and independent government.

Taipeh described the behavior of the Chinese army on Wednesday as “undisguised violation of international standards”. Taiwan dispatched sea, air and soil forces to “observe, warn and answer appropriately”. China refused to comment on the situation. “This is not a question of foreign policy,” said the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Lin Jian, to journalists.

This week, Taiwan’s coast guard had also set a freighter with a Chinese crew after another damage to a submarine cable. The “Hongtai” ship, which was traveling under the flag of Togo’s flag, was escorted for further investigations into the port of the city of Tainan in the south, the coastal guard said. According to the coast guard, eight crew members from China were on board the “Hongtai”. The spokeswoman for the Taiwanese cabinet, Michelle Lee Hui-Chih, said that the ship and the crew would now be taken into custody and it is determined whether it was sabotage.

The coast guard also examines whether the ship from China was financed. It could therefore not be ruled out that it was a so-called gray-zone activity of China, it said. With such actions that are under the threshold of an open conflict, Beijing Taipeh repeatedly puts pressure on.

The new US President Donald Trump has so far changed whether he will ever allow China’s violent takeover of Taiwan. “I never give a comment on this,” he says on Wednesday at his first cabinet session in the White House. “I never want to get myself in this situation.”

In other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the concern for China’s military activities is also growing. In Australia there had recently been excited by three Chinese warships that carried out military exercises for days off the east coast of the country, also near the metropolis of Sydney. The ABC quoted sources of the authorities, according to which one of the ships is said to have even carried out shooting exercises that were a danger to aircraft. “We keep an eye on them,” Defense Minister Richard Marles had told the broadcaster Sky News, but also explained that China has so far “acted in accordance with international law” and did not enter the territorial waters of Australia. “You have the right to be where you are.” But Australia also has the right to be careful.

China has one of the greatest war fleets worldwide. The ruling Communist Party in Beijing has been investing in the development of new ships for years. The People’s Liberation Army around Taiwan, which China belongs to its area, practices almost every day, although the island republic has an independent government.

Another location is also regularly the South China Sea, in which the coastal guards of China and the Philippines kept clash. China claims the raw material -rich region, in which the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines is located, largely for itself and thus contradicts the judgment of an arbitration court on the matter.