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| China flies 39 warplanes to Taiwan |
Beijing - China flew 39 warplanes towards Taiwan in its biggest surprise attack of the new time, amid pressures over the future of the tone- governing islet and as the US pushes to assert a presence in the region.
China's lineup late Sunday included 24 J-16 fighter spurts and 10 J-10 spurts, among other support and electronic warfare aircraft, according to Taiwan's defense ministry. Taiwan's air force stationed its own spurts and tracked People's Liberation Army aircraft on its air defense radar system, the ministry said.
China's surprise attack came as the US service said its two carrier groups were sailing on Sunday in the South China Sea, led by the USS Carl Vinson and USS Abraham Lincoln. They're involved inanti-submarine, air and combat readiness operations. China's Foreign Ministry declined to note on why the PLA flew a massive ramble on Monday, saying it wasn't a politic matter.
Taiwan and China resolve during a civil war in 1949, but China claims the islet as its own home. Beijing has used politic and military means to insulate and blackjack the tone- governing islet, but the US continues to support Taiwan by dealing advanced munitions and warplanes.
Chinese aviators have flown to Taiwan nearly every day for the once time and a half, since the Taiwanese government began publishing data regularly. The biggest ramble was 56 warplanes in a single day last October.
The exertion is generally in the airspace southwest of the islet and falls into a zone that Taiwan's service says is covered for public security considerations.
Pressures have risen since Taiwanese tagged Tsai Ing-wen as chairman in 2016, to which Beijing has responded by cutting offpre-existing dispatches with the islet's government. Tsai's forerunners were friendly with China and have backed Beijing's claim that the two are part of the one Chinese state.
The US regularly exercises in the South China Sea in what it calls freedom of navigation operations, in line with transnational law.