The incursion coincides with China’s National Day marked on 1 October, and comes before Taiwan’s National Day on 10 October.
China sent 52 PLA Air Force planes to Taiwan in the latest air force display on Monday, the third record air incursion in the past four days.
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said the aircraft contained 34 J-16s and 12 nuclear-capable H-6 bombers, and said it had responded by issuing radio warnings and deploying air defense systems to monitor activity.
The record was 38 aircraft dispatched on Friday after PLA aircraft entered the air defense detection zone on Monday, when China marked its national day, and 39 on Saturday in two separate waves.
Taiwanese officials have called the air incursions into the ADIZ a “military attack” and “damaging regional peace”.
The incursion coincides with China’s National Day marked on 1 October, and comes before Taiwan’s National Day on 10 October.
The air deployment in Taiwan was seen as “Taiwan and the United States’ demonstration of the PLA’s combined combat capabilities and ability to quickly assemble assets from various units,” the official CNA news agency reported from Taipei on Sunday. Was.
Beijing has in the past infiltrated the ADIZ in the form of signaling. Prior to the National Day incursion, September 23 coincided with another Taiwan stating that it submitted an application to join the 11-nation CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-Pacific Partnership) trade deal. A few days later, China said that it had formally applied. Join the Pacific Treaty.
Last month, Beijing hit out at Taiwan’s application to join the CPTPP. “There is only one China in the world,” spokesman Zhao Lijian said, “and Taiwan is an inseparable part of China’s territory.”
Commenting on Saturday’s record air incursions, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said the US is “deeply concerned by the People’s Republic of China’s provocative military activity near Taiwan, which is unsustainable, risks miscalculations, and is at risk of regional conflict.” undermines peace and stability.”
China on Monday condemned the US statement, saying “Taiwan belongs to China and the US is not in a position to make irresponsible remarks.”
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the comments “send an extremely inaccurate and irresponsible signal,” adding that “for a long time, the US has been taking negative steps by selling arms to Taiwan and strengthening official and military ties with Taiwan.” Picking up, which includes. Beginning of a $750 million arms sale plan to Taiwan, the landing of US military aircraft in Taiwan and the continued sailing of US warships in the Taiwan Strait.
“These provocative measures undermine Sino-US relations and regional peace and stability. China strongly opposes them and has taken necessary retaliatory measures,” she said in a statement. “‘Taiwan independence’ leads nowhere. China will take all necessary measures to firmly crush all efforts for ‘Taiwan independence’. China has the determination and will to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
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