Taiwan.- Taiwan detects 22 fighters and four Chinese Army ships in its vicinity

MADRID, 28 (EUROPA PRESS)

Taiwan authorities reported this Sunday that they have detected 22 fighter jets and four ships of the Chinese Armed Forces in the vicinity of the island in the context of increased tension between the parties.

The Taiwanese Ministry of Defense has indicated that at 6:00 a.m. (local time) the presence of four ships and 22 aircraft has been recorded around Taiwan and has highlighted that twelve of them have crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and have entered the island’s air defense identification zone.

Likewise, the authorities have added through the social network X, the country’s Armed Forces “have monitored the situation and have used the appropriate forces to respond.”

The situation around Taiwan worsened last year, after the visit of the now former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, which was followed by a visit to Washington by a Taiwanese delegation.

Ties between China and the island of Taiwan, which it considers another province under its sovereignty, were severed in 1949, after the forces of the nationalist Kuomintang party suffered defeat in the civil war against the Communist Party and moved to the archipelago. Relations were reestablished only at a business and informal level in the late 1980s.