Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Ministry of Defence Taiwan report the number of fighter aircraft attacks China into the air defense identification zone (ADIZ). For two consecutive days from Friday (1/10) to Saturday (2/10) night, there were 77 combat aircraft that entered ADIZ.
The Taiwanese government said that a total of 39 Chinese military aircraft entered the ADIZ last Saturday, more than the previous day when 38 Chinese aircraft were observed crossing the ADIZ.
The 38th and 39th aircraft are the highest number of daily raids Taiwan has reported since the last year reporting their surveillance publicly.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense in a report said Saturday’s attacks were divided into two waves, 20 aircraft during the day and 19 aircraft at night.
The fighters that passed were 26 J-16 fighter jets, 10 Su-30 fighter jets, two Y-8 aircraft, and one KJ-500 aircraft.
In response to the attack, the Taiwanese Air Force prepared aircraft, issued radio alerts, and deployed an air defense missile system.
Quote from CNN, a map provided by Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense shows all Chinese flights last Saturday were in the southwestern part of ADIZ island.
However, the attack did not violate Taiwan’s airspace which stretches 12 nautical miles from its coast. The US Federal Aviation Administration defines an ADIZ as “a defined area of airspace over land or water, a country requiring immediate identification, location, and air traffic control in the interests of that country’s national security.”
Prior to the past two days, the previous daily record for Chinese military flights (PLA) to Taiwan’s ADIZ was in June when 28 Chinese military aircraft entered the ADIZ.
The attack on Friday (1/10) coincided with the celebration of 72 years since China’s founding in 1949. Taiwan and China have ‘broken up’ since the end of the civil war more than seven decades ago where the defeated Nationalists fled to Taipei, Taiwan.
However, until now Beijing still considers Taiwan as an inseparable part of its territory, even though the Chinese Communist Party has never ruled the democratic island of about 24 million people.
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