China sends 30 aircraft to the Taiwan air defense zone

China did Monday his second largest foray of the year in the Taiwan air defense zone, with the entry of 30 aircraft, including more than 20 fighters, the Taiwanese government said.

These raids are the largest since January 23, when 39 planes entered the so-called air defense identification zone (“Adiz”) of the island.

Taiwan’s defense minister announced on Monday that it had launched its own aircraft and deployed air defense missile systems to monitor Chinese activity.

In recent years, Beijing has launched raid campaigns in the Taiwan Defense Zone show your discontent and keep yourself under pressure to aging Taipei aviation.

The island lives belowconstant threat of invasion from China. Beijing regards the territory as his own and has promised to take it back, if necessary by force.

Threatens Biden

Last week, the US accused Beijing of raising tensions around Taiwan and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken explicitly mentioned air raids as an example of “rhetoric and increasingly provocative activities”.

During his trip to Asia, where he visited Tokyo and Seoul, Biden surprised his advisors with a high-voltage phrase warning that the United States it would have intervened militarily in defense of Taiwan if China tries to take control of the island by force.

Asked whether the United States would intervene militarily against Beijing in the event of a Chinese attempt to take control of Taiwan by force, Biden replied: “It is the commitment that we have made”.

“We agree with the only Chinese policy and have signed it … but the idea that Taiwan should be taken by force it is not appropriate“, He added.

Visits to Taipei

After Republican Lindsey Graham in April, Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth He arrived in Taipei on Monday to show his support.

Duckworth is the main sponsor of the Taiwan Partnership Act, which seeks to deepen security relations between Washington and Taipei, and which has not yet been voted on.

After a meeting with Duckworth on Tuesday, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen suggested that some sort of rapprochement was already underway.

“The US Department of Defense is actively planning cooperation between the National Guard and the Taiwan Defense ForcesTsai said in a statement, without elaborating on.

Last year, Taiwan recorded a record 969 raids According to data collected by the AFP, Chinese military air strikes are more than double the 380 sorties in 2020.

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