According
to taiwan's ministry of national defense later four more chinese J-16s flew
towards the southwestern part of
taiwan's air defense identification zone, a buffer outside a country's airspace. The taiwanese air force scrambled its
fighter planes and monitored the
movement of the chinese warplanes on its
air defense system, the ministry said.
Premier Soo Seng Chang said taiwan
needed to be on alert and that china's
actions risked regional peace and
stability. Taiwan must be on alert china is more
and more over the top soo told reporters
in taipei. The world has also seen china's repeated
violations of regional peace and
pressure on taiwan. Taiwan needs to strengthen itself and
come together as one. He added, only then will countries that want to
annex taiwan not dare to easily resort
to force. only when we help ourselves can others
help us. Taiwan has reported 148 chinese air
force planes entering the southern and
southwestern part of its air defense
zone since china celebrated its national
day on october 1st.
On monday foreign minister Joseph Wu
worried about the risk of conflict. We are very concerned that china is
going to launch a war against taiwan at
some point even though the threat may
not be imminent at this point, Wu said in
an interview with the australian
broadcasting corp broadcast on monday.
Taiwan president Tsai In-weng has made
modernizing the armed forces a priority
enhancing its capacity for asymmetric
warfare which is designed to make any
chinese attack difficult and costly for
example with smart mines and portable
missiles. She is also overseeing improvements to
the island's air force.
In an article for
the u.s magazine foreign affairs
released on tuesday Tsai said taiwan
falling to china would trigger
catastrophic consequences for peace in
asia. While taiwan does not want military
confrontation if its democracy and way
of life are threatened, taiwan will do
whatever it takes to defend itself. She
wrote the mainland affairs council mac
taiwan's top china policy making body
accused beijing of seriously damaging
the status quo of peace and stability in
the taiwan strait with its recent larger
incursions. "We demand the beijing authorities
immediately stop its non-peaceful and
irresponsible provocative actions," she said.
Max
spokesman Chu Kui Cheng said in a
statement
china is the culprit for causing
tensions between the two sides of the
taiwan, straight and it has further
threatened regional security and order. He added saying taiwan will never
compromise and yield to threats. China claims democratically ruled taiwan
as its own territory and has not ruled
out the use of force to bring the island
under its control. it has increasingly sought to isolate
psy's administration since she was first
elected in 2016.
the defeated nationalist forces fled to
taiwan and set up a government there in
1949 after losing the civil war to the
communists who set up the people's
republic of china. The republic of china the official name
for taiwan, continued to hold china's
seat at the united nations until
november 1971 when the PRC achieved u.n
recognition. Beijing has since opposed taiwan's
involvement in the un and international
organizations and alliances.
Taiwan announced on september 23rd that
it had applied to join the comprehensive
and progressive agreement for
trans-pacific partnership, a week after
china submitted its own application to
join the trade pact. On october 1st the people's liberation
army sent 38 warplanes into taiwan's air
defense identification zone and 39
aircraft on saturday, previously the most
in a single day since taiwan began
releasing reports on the flights in
september 2020.
China sent an additional 16 planes on
sunday. Over the weekend u.s department
of state spokesperson ned price warned
that china's military activity near
taiwan risks miscalculation and
undermines regional peace and stability. We urge beijing to cease its military, diplomatic and economic pressure and
coercion against taiwan.
The statement
said
the us does not have diplomatic ties
with taiwan but is the island's main
backer. China's ministry of foreign affairs on
monday criticized the us over its ties
with taipei saying that selling weapons
to taiwan as well as u.s ships
navigating the taiwan strait was
provocative action that harmed u.s china
relations. China will take all necessary
countermeasures and resolutely crush any
taiwan independence, plot foreign
ministry spokesperson Hua Chun Ying said
in a statement.
