Chinese military forces increased aerial and warship activity near Taiwan on Tuesday, one day before House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is set to meet the island’s president in California, according to Taiwan defense authorities.
China dispatched 20 aircraft and three ships of the People’s Liberation Army to areas around Taiwan, prompting Taiwanese interceptor jets and navy vessels to respond, the Taiwan Defense Ministry said in a tweet.
The aircraft included nine aircraft — a high-altitude Harbin BZK-005 reconnaissance drone, six J-16 jets and one Y-8 anti-submarine warfare aircraft that entered the Taiwan air defense identification zone . The location of the warships or the type of vessels was not disclosed by the Taiwanese ministry.
An August 2022 visit to Taipei by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest-level U.S. official to visit the island democracy in a quarter-century, produced a furious reaction in Beijing. China’s military reacted by staging the largest military exercises around the island in decades. The August exercises also included nearly a dozen ballistic missile firings that bracketed the island.
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