Taiwan: new exit from China with eight planes and eight warships

China has sent eight aircraft and eight warships to the Taiwan Strait in the past 24 hours. The Taiwanese Ministry of Defense announced it on X, specifying that three planes entered the air defense identification zone (Adiz) of the island. Since the start of the month, China has sent 140 aircraft and 117 warships near Taiwan. Tensions between the two sides of the strait intensified particularly after the inauguration of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, accused by China of having surpassed his predecessors “on the path to independence”.

In response to Lai’s inauguration speech on May 20, the Chinese Communist Party held two days of military exercises around the island on May 23 and 24, calling them “punishment” for “secessionists” and warning for “external forces” intervening on the island. the folder. The reference is above all to the United States which, after Lai took office, sent two delegations to Taiwan to renew their support for the new administration in a context of tensions with Beijing. China also protested Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s congratulations to Lai on the eve of his inauguration, accusing him of “sending a deeply wrong signal to separatist forces.”

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