{"id":243489,"date":"2021-10-02T13:15:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T13:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=243489"},"modified":"2021-10-03T07:25:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T07:25:31","slug":"china-flies-record-38-planes-over-taiwan-defence-zone-in-national-day-show-of-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=243489","title":{"rendered":"China flies record 38 planes over Taiwan defence zone in national day show of force"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reuters \u2013 Oct 2, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A record 38 Chinese military jets crossed into Taiwan\u2019s defence zone as Beijing marked the founding of the People\u2019s Republic of China, officials in Taipei have said.<\/p>\n<p>The show of force on China\u2019s national day on Friday near the self-ruled democratic island, which Beijing claims as part of its territory, came in the same week it accused Britain of sending a warship into the Taiwan strait with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/sep\/28\/uk-sends-warship-through-taiwan-straight-for-first-time-in-more-than-a-decade\">\u201cevil intentions\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Taiwan defence ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnd.gov.tw\/Publish.aspx?p=79129&amp;title=%E5%9C%8B%E9%98%B2%E6%B6%88%E6%81%AF&amp;SelectStyle=%E5%8D%B3%E6%99%82%E8%BB%8D%E4%BA%8B%E5%8B%95%E6%85%8B\">reported on Friday<\/a> that its fighters had scrambled against 18 J-16 and four Su-30 fighter jets plus two nuclear-capable H-6 bombers and an anti-submarine aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Then in the early hours of Saturday, the ministry said a further 13 Chinese aircraft were involved in a mission on Friday night \u2013 10 J-16s, 2 H-6s and an early warning aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>It said Taiwan sent combat aircraft to warn away the Chinese aircraft, while missile systems were deployed to monitor them.<\/p>\n<p>The first batch of Chinese aircraft all flew in an area close to the Pratas Islands, with the two bombers flying closest to the atoll, according to a map issued by the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The second group flew down into the Bashi Channel that separates Taiwan from the Philippines, a key waterway that links the Pacific with the disputed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-china-sea\">South China Sea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>China has yet to comment on its<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/06\/china-sends-19-aircraft-into-taiwans-air-defence-zone\"> latest show of force<\/a>. It has previously said such flights were to protect the country\u2019s sovereignty and aimed at \u201ccollusion\u201d between Taiwan and the United States, the island\u2019s most important international backer.<\/p>\n<p>The previous largest incursion happened in June, involving 28 Chinese air force aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s latest mission came less than a day after its government launched a attack on Taiwan\u2019s foreign minister, evoking the words of revolutionary leader Mao Zedong to denounce him as a \u201cshrilling\u201d fly for his efforts to promote Taiwan internationally.<\/p>\n<p>China has stepped up military and political pressure to try and force Taiwan to accept Chinese sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan says it is an independent country and will defend its freedom and democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s incursion came after Britain sent a warship through the Taiwan strait on Monday for the first time since 2008, a move that challenges Beijing\u2019s claim to the sensitive waterway and marked a rare passage by a non-US military vessel.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s military accused Britain of acting out of \u201cevil intentions to sabotage peace and stability in the Taiwan strait\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/02\/taiwan-reports-largest-ever-incursion-as-38-chinese-planes-fly-over-air-space\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incursion came after Britain sent a warship through the Taiwan strait on Monday for the first time since 2008, a move that challenges Beijing\u2019s claim to the sensitive waterway and marked a rare passage by a non-US military vessel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243539,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243489\/revisions\/243539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}