Taiwan’s armed forces have recorded the activity of 35 aircraft and seven ships of the People’s Liberation Army of China (PLA) near the island over the past 24 hours, the island’s defense ministry reported on its page on the social network X.
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“From 6.00 Wednesday to 6.00 Thursday (around Taiwan), 35 aircraft and seven ships of the People’s Liberation Army of China were recorded,” the island’s Ministry of Defense said.
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It is noted that 33 PLA aircraft crossed the so-called “median line” of the Taiwan Strait and entered the island’s air defense identification zone.
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The situation around Taiwan worsened significantly after Nancy Pelosi, then Speaker of the US House of Representatives, visited the island in early August 2022. China, which considers the island one of its provinces, condemned Pelosi’s visit as US support for Taiwanese separatism and held large-scale military exercises.
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Official relations between the central government of China and its island province were interrupted in 1949 after the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek, defeated in the civil war with the Chinese Communist Party, moved to Taiwan. Business and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties began to contact through non-governmental organizations – the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Cross-Strait Exchange Foundation.
