{"id":1235082,"date":"2022-01-24T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1235082"},"modified":"2022-01-24T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:38:12","slug":"taiwan-reports-new-large-scale-chinese-air-force-incursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taiwan-reports-new-large-scale-chinese-air-force-incursion\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Reports New Large-Scale Chinese Air Force Incursion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaiwan-reports-new-large-scale-chinese-air-force-incursion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1235082&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-950939988-e1629141314159.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>TAIPEI (Reuters)\u2014Taiwan on Sunday reported the largest incursion since October by China&#8217;s air force in its air defense zone, with the island&#8217;s defense ministry saying Taiwanese fighters scrambled to warn away 39 aircraft in the latest uptick in tensions.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has complained for more than a year of repeated missions by China&#8217;s air force near the democratically governed island, often in the southwestern part of its air defense identification zone, or ADIZ, close to the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan calls China&#8217;s repeated nearby military activities &#8220;grey zone&#8221; warfare, designed to both wear out Taiwan&#8217;s forces by making them repeatedly scramble, and also to test Taiwan&#8217;s responses.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Chinese mission included 34 fighters plus four electronic warfare aircraft and a single bomber, the Taiwan ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft flew in an area to the northeast of the Pratas, according to a map the ministry provided.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan sent combat aircraft to warn away the Chinese aircraft, while missile systems were deployed to monitor them, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from China, which has in the past said such moves were drills aimed at protecting the country&#8217;s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>While it was not clear what might have prompted China to carry out such a large-scale mission, U.S. and Japanese naval forces have been carrying out exercises in the Philippine Sea, a vast area that includes waters to the east of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Pacific Fleet said on Sunday those exercises included two carrier strike groups who were &#8220;conducting training to preserve and protect a free and open Indo Pacific&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>China has stepped up pressure on Taiwan to accept its sovereignty claims. Taiwan&#8217;s government says it wants peace but will defend itself if attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan reported 148 Chinese air force planes in the southern and southwestern part of its air defense zone over a four-day period beginning on Oct. 1, the same day China marked a key patriotic holiday, National Day.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has reported almost daily Chinese air force forays into the same air space since then, but the number of planes on Sunday was the largest on a single day since the October incursions.<\/p>\n<p>No shots have been fired and the Chinese aircraft have not been flying in Taiwan&#8217;s air space, but in its ADIZ, a broader area Taiwan monitors and patrols that acts to give it more time to respond to any threats.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Gareth Jones and Susan Fenton)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI (Reuters)\u2014Taiwan on Sunday reported the largest incursion since October by China&#8217;s air force in its air defense zone, with the island&#8217;s defense ministry saying Taiwanese fighters scrambled to warn &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}