Taiwan's defense department: Five PLA military planes entered the airspace of southwest Taiwan yesterday, and 4 sorties were J-16s

Source: World Wide Web

According to Taiwan's "Central News Agency," Taiwan's Air Force issued a "common aircraft dynamic" on the evening of 19 July, with one Y-8 anti-submarine aircraft and four J-16 fighters "invading" Taiwan's southwest "Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ)" during the day, and Taiwan's Air Force "dispatching air patrol forces to respond, broadcasting away, and tracking and monitoring air defense missiles."

According to the report, Taiwan's defense department has released "common aircraft dynamics" in the "real-time military dynamics" special area of the official website since September 17, 2020.

With regard to the PLA's military operations around the Taiwan Strait, Colonel Tan Kefei, deputy director of the Information Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense and spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense, said at a regular news conference on the afternoon of December 30, 2021 that the root cause of the current escalation of tension in the Taiwan Strait lies in the "independence" provocations of the DPP authorities and the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces and the attempts of external forces to "use Taiwan to control China." Safeguarding national sovereignty and security and curbing "Taiwan independence" separatist acts Chinese the duty of the People's Liberation Army.

Tan Kefei said that since 2021, the PLA has normally organized bombers, reconnaissance planes, and fighter planes around Taiwan Island to carry out cruises, normally arrived near The vicinity of Taiwan Island to organize joint combat readiness patrols of multi-service forces, and regularly organized joint naval assaults, joint land strikes, and joint air defense operations in the sea and airspace near Taiwan Island. It is a vicious act of challenging the one-China principle, resolutely safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and earnestly safeguarding the common well-being of compatriots on both sides of the strait and peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait region.