Taiwan claims about Chinese balloons

According to the report of Fars International News Agency, the Ministry of Defense of Taiwan criticized China for what it called the repeated sending of its balloons over the Taiwan Strait and asked China to immediately stop the flight of these balloons.

According to Bloomberg, Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense announced in a press release on Saturday: “China has disregarded the safety of civil aviation and its balloons pose a serious threat to the security of many international flight routes. »

Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense recently announced that 12 Chinese balloons crossed the middle line of the strait between this island and China between January 1st and 5th, and some of them entered the sky of this island.

Taiwan is considered a part of China that has separatist claims; Claims that the countries of the world and the United Nations do not recognize.

Taiwan’s tension with China continues, and Chinese fighters and ships patrol the Golan Islands every day.

At the beginning of December, Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense announced the interception of 7 military aircraft and 2 Chinese warships around the island.

Taiwan presidential election on January 13 holds its own republic.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday evening last week in a speech on the occasion of the New Year of reunification with Taiwan as an “inevitable historical event” reported.

On the 15th of Bahan last year (February 4th, 2023), the US Army fighter jet shot down a Chinese balloon after claiming that it had violated the country’s airspace. The sending of this balloon, which Washington called “espionage” and Beijing called it “meteorological”, created a new tension in the relations between the two countries.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense after this Since December 2023, the island has made claims about the observation of Chinese balloons, announcing that it has identified these balloons for a long time but has not made the information about them public.

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