{"id":245220,"date":"2021-11-07T08:44:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T08:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=245220"},"modified":"2021-11-08T07:56:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T07:56:33","slug":"taiwan-says-16-chinese-warplanes-enter-air-defense-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=245220","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan says 16 Chinese warplanes enter air defense zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>DW \u2013 Nov 7, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Taiwan&#8217;s Ministry of National Defense on Sunday said\u00a016 Chinese fighter jets had\u00a0entered its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/chinas-taiwan-military-incursions-test-the-limits-of-airspace\/a-59398039\">Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ)<\/a> a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The number of aircraft sent into the ADIZ is one of the largest since early October, when the People&#8217;s Liberation Army (PLA) sent around 150 warplanes into the\u00a0air\u00a0defense zone in separate maneuvers\u00a0over 5 days.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said it issued\u00a0radio warnings and monitored the aircraft on Saturday\u00a0using air defense\u00a0systems. The jets entered the ADIZ off Taiwan&#8217;s southwestern\u00a0coast, following a path similar to\u00a0previous incursions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">16 PLA aircrafts (J-16*10 and J-10*6) entered <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Taiwan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Taiwan<\/a>\u2019s southwest ADIZ on November 6, 2021. Please check our official website for more information: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yvYrxcMP9q\">https:\/\/t.co\/yvYrxcMP9q<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y9H50T0OED\">pic.twitter.com\/Y9H50T0OED<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u570b\u9632\u90e8 Ministry of National Defense, R.O.C. \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddfc (@MoNDefense) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoNDefense\/status\/1457003768797548550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">What is Taiwan&#8217;s ADIZ?<\/h2>\n<p>The ADIZ extends\u00a0hundreds of kilometers from Taiwan&#8217;s coast\u00a0and even includes parts of mainland China. It is much larger than Taiwan&#8217;s sovereign air space, which only extends 12 nautical miles from the\u00a0coast.<\/p>\n<p>The ADIZ is airspace designated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/taiwan-says-its-on-alert-amid-china-air-incursions\/a-59406455\">for national security purposes<\/a> but is not delineated in international treaties. Taiwanese authorities reserve the right to order\u00a0aircraft entering the ADIZ to identify themselves and their purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Although China has flown regular incursions with smaller numbers of aircraft into the ADIZ over the past several weeks, the warplanes have not entered Taiwan&#8217;s sovereign airspace.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">EU delegates visit Taiwan<\/h2>\n<p>The Chinese flights into the ADIZ on Saturday came a day after a European Parliament delegation wrapped up a three-day visit to Taipei.<\/p>\n<p>The seven lawmakers on the parliament&#8217;s\u00a0committee on foreign interference in democratic processes visited last week, following up on a resolution last month calling for the body to &#8220;intensify EU-Taiwan political relations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>EU parliamentarians said the visit was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/taiwan-visit-not-a-provocation-says-eu-delegation\/a-59734983\">not aimed at provoking China<\/a>, which considers self-governing Taiwan as part of its territory and usually considers any attempt at building bilateral ties\u00a0between Western nations and the government in Taipei as a provocation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan on alert as 16 Chinese warplanes breach the island\u2019s air defence zone<\/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-245220","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\/245220","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=245220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245221,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245220\/revisions\/245221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}