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China’s military sent 103 warplanes toward Taiwan in a 24-hour period in what the island’s defense ministry called a recent new high.

The planes were detected between 6 a.m. on Sunday and 6 a.m. on Monday, the ministry said. As is customary, they turned back before reaching Taiwan. Chinese warplanes fly toward the self-governing island on a near-daily basis but typically in smaller numbers. The Taiwan ministry didn’t explain what time period it meant by a “recent” high.

China, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory, has conducted increasingly large military drills in the air and waters around Taiwan as tensions have grown between the two and with the United States. The U.S. is Taiwan’s main supplier of arms and opposes any attempt to change Taiwan’s status by force.

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[-] khannie@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

It's not unusual to shoot down aircraft violating airspace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shootdown

Hell the USSR shot down a passenger plane in the 80s because of airspace violation, killing 269

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

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