Chinese Fighter Jets Breach Taiwan’s Air Defense Zone
Taipei Times: “Chinese aircraft flew into airspace to the north, center and southern part of Taiwan.”
Amid looming doubts about President Joe Biden’s mental fitness, Taiwan is reporting Chinese military activity around the island nation. Taiwanese military detected Chinese fighter jets and warships near its territorial waters, Taiwan’s media reported Saturday.
Dozens of Chinese warplanes breached the Taiwanese air defense zone from multiple directions in last 24 hours. Taiwan’s “Ministry of National Defense (MND) tracked 30 Chinese military aircraft and nine naval vessels around Taiwan” between Friday morning and early Saturday, the news website Taiwan News reported. “Of the 30 People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft, 23 crossed the Taiwan Strait median line and entered the northern, southwestern, and southeastern air defense identification zone (ADIZ), according to the MND.”
The Chinese military provocation comes as Beijing works on advance battle plans to capture the island. In late May, the China’s People Liberation Army (PLA) conducted “two days of war games around Taiwan in which it simulated attacks with bombers and practiced boarding ships,” Reuters reported. “The Chinese military’s Eastern Theatre Command, whose forces carried out the drills, released a video on its social media accounts on Saturday called “A six-word rhyme on smashing independence”, set to stirring martial music.”
The war game was followed by a “joint combat readiness patrol” by Chinese fighter jets and warships near Taiwan. “There has been a significant increase in Chinese military flights since Thursday, according to Taipei, as Beijing conducted a “joint combat readiness patrol” near the island,” Germany’s DW TV reported June 24. “From Thursday to Sunday, Taiwan reported detecting 115 Chinese military aircraft in the vicinity, with some coming as close as 31 nautical miles (57 kilometers) from the island’s southern tip.”
The newspaper Taipei Times reported Saturday:
The Ministry of National Defense yesterday reported renewed Chinese military activity nearby with another “combat patrol,” as the government called on Beijing not to escalate tensions after the seizure of a Taiwanese fishing boat.
On Tuesday, China Coast Guard officials boarded and detained a Taiwanese fishing boat for illegally operating in its waters, in what the head of the National Security Bureau on Thursday said might be an act of psychological warfare.
The ministry said that starting just before 7am yesterday, it had detected 26 Chinese military aircraft, including J-16 fighters, carrying out a “joint combat readiness patrol” with Chinese warships.
The Chinese aircraft flew into airspace to the north, center and southern part of Taiwan, the ministry said.
In the 24 hours ending at 6am yesterday, the ministry said it had detected 36 Chinese warplanes and six naval vessels operating around the nation.
The ministry said it had “monitored the situation and responded accordingly.”
At least 127 Chinese military aircraft operating nearby since the start of this month.
The Chinese military is also considering a blockade of the island nation, roughly the size of Maryland, by simply using drones. The “PLA has detailed a simulation of an island blockade using just drones,” The South China Morning Post newspaper reported Friday. “China’s military has the ability to impose and maintain a blockade on an island solely with drones, according to a study released by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) last month.”
The reports Chinese military build-up comes as Beijing vows to hunt down — and even execute — Taiwanese nationals who actively oppose island’s ‘unification’ with China. “Last week, announcing new legal guidelines, China threatened to execute Taiwan independence separatists in extreme cases, a further ramping up of tensions,” Singapore-based TV channel CNA reported June 27. “China has vowed to go after people it views as Taiwan separatists wherever they may be, though Chinese courts have no jurisdiction in Taiwan and it is not clear how China could seek to enforce any judgments outside its borders.”
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“Dozens of Chinese warplanes breached the Taiwanese air defense”
What better time than now? The whole world knows the president of the United States has dementia. Our government is in a turmoil. Nobody knows who is in charge or our country, who is making decisions, who is giving orders.
The Despots and Tyrants of the world were just waiting for confirmation that we had elected an old, feeble, dementia ridden person as president of the United States. And the debate and subsequent interview gave them the confirmation they needed. . Why else would the CCP being doing this now if not knowing the Biden regime will not or perhaps I should say can not respond to any military provocation in regards to Taiwan at this point in time.
The Chinese would be a good start.
Glad to see that Biden et al. are on the ball.
Can we speed up the time to the election? Seeing their patsy Biden falter and crumble in the debate may have sped up their timetables. Why can’t we park an aircraft carrier there before the PRC “liberates” Taiwan like they did Tibet?
Taiwan: please make sure you have the chip fabs set for self destruct. Give China nothing.
Anti ship missile capabilities have advanced a long way in the last couple decades. Add in swarms of drones some to draw anti aircraft fire and some with munitions to serve as kamikaze. Then add in submarines and aircraft. Not so simple to survive as may have been two decades ago.
The age of the large carrier is IMO just about at an end for power projection v a peer/near peer opponent. It’s a big target and much less defensible than was previously the case. The loss of prestige/humiliation that would accompany a successful attack much less the destruction of a US Carrier would be immense.
Then there’s the US dependence on China for all sorts of things from finished goods to basic materials and commodities. Our financial system is intertwined with China so any hostilities would be economically devastating at this point. We don’t have the same ‘big stick’ militarily nor economically that we did a few decades ago. The position/preeminence of the US in all those early Tom Clancy novels has been eroded. Until we decouple economically, financially, onshore and ramp up our domestic manufacturing base and restore competence and a focus on war fighting to our military we should avoid a confrontation with China…and any other near peer nation, IMO. We kinda like the ‘out of shape Thor’ meme at the moment.
Clancy novels very much
The stable, consistent country that the nations of the world could trust to fulfill commitments and act reasonably and with purpose died when we cut-and-ran in chaos from Afghanistan.
The stable, consistent country that the nations of there world could trust to fulfill commitments and act reasonably and with purpose died when we elected a feeble, dementia ridden, old man as leader of the United States.
But at least there aren’t any more mean Tweets, right? Right?!??
Here we go, folks! The ramp up to the Chinese invasion of Taiwan and the beginning of World War III. And the United States has no way to prevent it from happening. We have no effective leadership in D.C. and the Chinese know full well that the U.S. military has been neutered and will not be able to stop them from doing as they please in the region. The only thing that surprises me is that it took the CCP so long to decide to do this. It’s been apparent for quite a while that the U.S. was no longer a threat to them and it should have happened earlier.
Taiwan supplies almost 70% of the world’s silicon processors, particularly SOCs for the automotive industry; but really, the majority of the world’s most advanced processors come from Taiwan. Everything from PCs & phones, to cars to heavy equipment to assembly line automation and medical equipment has a CPU/SOC that was probably made in Taiwan. A modest amount of damage to those fabs would be devastating to western economies, particularly our own. Significant damage would be catastrophic.
It takes a VERY long period of time and an insane amount of money to bring a fab online. The shock to the global economy would last for years. An attack on Taiwan would be something much worse than a ‘Black Swan’ event.
We’d see a global depression in my opinion because we are going to see a total destruction of those fabs. Taiwan/America is not going to let those things fall into Chinese hands.
Also it would not surprise me in the slightest that moment China makes a move to take Taiwan that Taiwan and America rush to get the employees and their families out of Taiwan. We can’t afford to lose that experience either.
Agree completely. Hard to see a scenario that doesn’t end with a global depression.
Every day XI is considering it. There may not be a better time than right now when the President of the United States is in a weakened position.
I think China might be a bit worried though what Biden’s response would actually be. A president with mental problems could do anything from nothing to ordering a nuclear strike. (especially if there are people who are making decisions in his name)
As for the chip factories we of course should burn them to the ground and evacuate their people to the US but I don’t think China cares. I think China has already figured in the invasion plans that we along with Taiwan would do such a thing. While China would love to get it’s hands on those factories and workers it knows it’s highly unlikely too.
So why invade Taiwan? It’s all down to Xi’s ego. What better way for a leader to go into the Chinese history books than as the man who finally put down the Taiwan rebellion and brought the island back as part of China.
It would seem to me that people in positions of power and more knowledgeable than I realize that Biden hasn’t been in charge of anything for a long time.
No matter what is up with Biden, the same people are running the government now were running the government 3 years ago.
I think the main thing keeping the Chinese in check is that they depend upon us to buy their goods as well. What would happen to China if the US collapsed?
Idk, God knows, just as Ezekiel said.
Well I hope they don’t intend to invade Taiwan before 10 am eastern or after 4 pm
We are so screwed
The U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan stated with customary arrogance and condescension: “The Chinese have their point of view, and we must respect that.”
The U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken could not be pulled away from his multimillion dollar bathroom mirror , sniveling: “But I’m good enough, and I’m smart enough , and darn it people like me. People really do like me. “ And then he was seen scrambling about his multimillion dollar bedroom searching for his Light Blue Baby Blanjet , a la Gene Wilder in THE PRODUCERS
Hunter Biden was double checking to make sure the checks from CCP had cleared, then told his dad to inform Taiwan “You’re on your own.”
Obama was familiarizing himself with catalog of cute teenaged homosexual boys. Getting them all penciled in for his first post-CCP-takeover.
Ben Stiller doublechecked his notes and issued a formal statement: “I, Benjamin Stiller, do solemnly swear that this is not a war that needs to end. Thank you.”
Tuchus Carlson cackled on his show: “Taiwan is not any concern of the U.S. even though there’s been a 70-year-alliance between Taiwan and the U.S. “Alliances, Shmaliances, I live in a secure compound in Maine, I got millions and millions and millions in the bank , ergo, Not My Problem.” Then he cackled the cackle of a man who knows that nothing going on between China and Taiwan will ever affect him or his family. Ever.
The presidents of Harvard, Columbi, Penn, and MIT commented: “OK, yeah, soo what’s the problemo?”
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