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China sends 39 warplanes, 3 ships toward Taiwan in 24 hours
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TAIWAN, 23 December 2022, (TON): Taiwan’s defense ministry said “China’s military sent 39 planes and three ships toward Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force directed at the island.”
China’s military harassment of self-ruled Taiwan, which it claims is its own territory, has intensified in recent years, and the Communist Party’s People’s Liberation Army has sent planes or ships toward the island on a near-daily basis.
Between 6 a.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday, 30 of the Chinese planes crossed the median of the Taiwan Strait, an unofficial boundary once tacitly accepted by both sides, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense.
Those planes flew to the island’s southwest and then horizontally all the way to the southeastern side before doubling back, according to a diagram of the flight patterns provided by Taiwan.
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