Chinese fighter jets patrol around Taiwan at the same time as American representatives visit Taipei

According to the report of Fars International News Agency, in the continuation of the process of sending Chinese military planes and warships around the island of Taiwan, the Chinese army sent another number of fighters and warships around Taiwan on Sunday.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense wrote in a tweet that 6 warships and 22 warplanes of this country were detected around Taiwan.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense claimed that the island’s armed forces are monitoring the situation and responding to any movement with aircraft, naval vessels and land-based missile systems.

In addition to conducting exercises around the island of Taiwan, the Chinese army has also started exercises in the north and south of the Yellow Sea in the neighborhood of the Korean Peninsula. From this Sunday, China and Thailand’s air exercise called “Hawk Strike” has started, which will include air support, attack on ground targets and the deployment of forces in small and large dimensions, among the exercises of Chinese and Thai forces.

In another development, a plane carrying American lawmakers arrived in Taiwan.

After the controversial visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan despite Beijing’s warnings, China held a large-scale exercise around the Taiwan Strait for several days, and Chinese media described these exercises as a kind of exercise to attack or encircle the island of Taiwan.

Beijing has always opposed any contact between Taiwanese representatives and Western officials, especially high-ranking political or military officials from countries with which Beijing has diplomatic ties, saying such visits violate the principle of one China and send the wrong signals to Taiwan’s separatist forces. .

China has long proposed a “one country, two systems” policy for Taiwan, which would theoretically give the island greater autonomy after the island’s reunification with China. The Chinese government recently released a document saying China is offering less flexibility than it had previously promised.

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