UPDATED. Taiwan's defense ministry says it would respond with a 'calm, rational, and serious attitude.'
Seventy-one Chinese military aircraft crossed the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, April 8, as China began drills around Taiwan in anger at President Tsai Ing-wen’sThe three-day drills, announced the day after Tsai returned from the United States, had been widely expected after China condemned her Wednesday meeting with Speaker Kevin McCarthy in Los Angeles.
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday morning, April 8, that it spotted 42 Chinese fighters – J-10s, J-11s and J-16s, crossing the median line that normally serves as an unofficial batter between the two sides, as well as eight Chinese ships. China had threatened unspecified retaliation if the meeting with McCarthy – second in line to succeed the US president, after the vice president – were to take place. Beijing staged war games around Taiwan,, in August after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei.
Tsai, hosting a lunch on Saturday with a visiting US lawmaker delegation, led by Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said she looked forward to strengthening security cooperation with the United States.
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