China's air force and navy staged another large-scale drill involving fighters, bombers and warships to Taiwan's south and southwest on Tuesday, the island's defence ministry said, as Beijing keeps up its military pressure on Taipei.
China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has over the past three years regularly sent warplanes into Taiwan's air defence identification zone, or ADIZ, to try and force the island to accept Chinese sovereignty.
Taiwan's defence ministry, in a statement on Wednesday, said that in the past 24 hours it had detected 32 Chinese air force planes entering the island's ADIZ, a mixture of fighter jets, helicopters and early warning aircraft, among others. Late Tuesday, the ministry said the Chinese air force planes were acting in coordination with Chinese ships to carry out joint training to the south of Taiwan, and that four Chinese warships were engaged in "combat readiness patrols".The ADIZ is a broader area Taiwan monitors and patrols to give its forces more time to respond to threats.
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