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Taiwan’s defence ministry has urged China to stop “destructive, unilateral action” after reporting a sharp rise in Chinese military activities near the island, warning such behaviour could lead to an increase in tensions.

China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has in recent years regularly carried out military drills around the island as it seeks to assert its sovereignty claims and pressure Taipei.

Taiwan’s defence ministry said that since Sunday it had spotted 103 Chinese military aircraft over the sea, a number it called a “recent high”. The planes were detected between 6am on Sunday and 6am on Monday, the ministry said. As is customary, they turned back before reaching Taiwan.

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[-] nottheengineer@feddit.de 36 points 1 year ago

Two years ago I would've said that this is probably nothing. But the ukraine war started just like this, with military exercises coming closer.

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It still is nothing.

China does not have the ability to launch an amphibious invasion.

This is purely for domestic rhetoric.

[-] NanoooK@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Russia does not have the ability to take Ukraine, but still tries.

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