China has sent 22 aircraft and six warships into the Taiwan Strait in the past 24 hours, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry announced on the X, adding that 20 aircraft entered the island’s air defense identification zone (Adiz). Since the beginning of the month, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry has reported the presence of 41 Chinese aircraft and 19 warships near the island. Tensions between the two sides have escalated especially after the inauguration of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, who China accuses of surpassing 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 a warning to “external forces” intervening on the island. the file. The reference is above all to the United States, which, after Lai took office, sent two delegations to Taiwan to renew its support for the new administration amid tensions with Beijing. China also protested Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s congratulations to Lai on the eve of his inauguration, accusing him of having “sent a deeply wrong signal to separatist forces.”
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