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Taipei, Taiwan—Taiwan’s defense ministry said Friday that 36 Chinese military aircraft were detected around the self-ruled island in a 24-hour window—the highest number this year.
In the 24 hours leading up to 6:00 am Friday , the Ministry of National Defense said it also detected six naval ships operating around Taiwan. Relations between both sides of the Taiwan Strait have been frosty since Tsai’s election in 2016, with China cutting off high-level communications due to her stance that the island was “already independent”—a redline for Beijing.
Hsiao—who was formerly Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the United States—has been travelling in recent days, including to the Czech Republic and the European Parliament in Strasbourg, according to photos posted on social media platform X by European politicians. A Chinese speedboat carrying four people capsized on February 14 near Taiwan’s Kinmen islands while being pursued by the Taiwanese coast guard, killing two people while the other two survived.
The highest number of warplanes around Taiwan occurred last September when 103 Chinese aircraft were detected in a 24-hour period, according to daily data released by the defense ministry.
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