Taiwan<\/a>‘s air force was scrambled on Sunday to respond to a major Chinese military incursion into their ‘air defence identification zone’ of 19 aircraft which included several nuclear-capable bombers.<\/p>\n Taiwanese authorities have condemned repeated incursions by the Chinese air force over the past year, but the latest Chinese mission was a considerable show of force, the likes of which have not been seen since June 15 when 28 Chinese aircraft breached Taiwanese territory.<\/p>\n H-6K long range nuclear bomber over South China Sea. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n The Chinese mission involved 10 J-16 and four Su-30 fighters, as well as four nuclear-capable H-6 bombers and an anti-submarine aircraft according to Taiwan’s Defence Ministry.<\/p>\n Taiwanese combat aircraft were dispatched to warn away the Chinese aircraft which had flown between the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands and the mainland, while missile systems were deployed to monitor them, the ministry said.<\/p>\n There was no immediate comment from China.<\/p>\n Taiwanese authorities have complained for several months that China’s air force have exercised threatening behaviour near the self-ruled island by flying regular military operations, often in the southwestern part of its air defence zone near the Pratas Islands.<\/p>\n Beijing considers Taiwan to be a province of China under their ‘One China’ principle and sees the self-governed island as a separatist entity that should be under Chinese control, while Taiwan’s Tsai administration maintains that the island is an independent state.<\/p>\n The latest show of Chinese force on Sunday came just one week before Taiwan’s ‘war games’, an annual, live-fire training exercise in which Taiwanese forces test their combat readiness against invasion, particularly from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).<\/p>\n The exercise, which is set to run for five days from September 13, will also include a large-scale air-raid test called the ‘Wan An exercise’, in which Taiwan’s military will simulate their response in the event of\u00a0missile and warplane attacks by Beijing.<\/p>\n ‘In view of the military threats from our enemy, we will hold the Wan An exercise at the time when we stage the live-fire war games to strengthen the overall alertness, preparedness and capability of both the government and the public in dealing with such threats,’ defence ministry spokesman Shih Shun-wen said last week.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hdash6K-long-range-nuclear-bomber-over-South-China-Sea.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
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