Taiwan denounces the deployment of more than 60 planes and four Chinese military ships near the island

Nov. 7 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Taiwanese Armed Forces on Monday denounced the deployment of 63 planes and four Chinese Army ships off the coast of the island and accused Beijing of launching measures with the aim of intimidating Taipei.

“At 5:00 p.m. (local time) the Armed Forces have detected the presence of planes and ships of the People’s Liberation Army of China in the air and sea spaces near the island,” the security forces said in a statement.

Thus, they have indicated that 31 of these planes have crossed the so-called “middle line” of the Taiwan Strait, which has sent a patrol and issued several radio alerts.

The Taiwanese authorities have also proceeded to deploy anti-aircraft defense systems in the face of increased tension with China and fear of military aggression.

Links between China and Taiwan were severed in 1949, after forces from the nationalist Kuomintang party suffered a defeat in the civil war against the Communist Party and moved to the island. Relations between Taiwan and mainland China were restored only on a business and informal level in the late 1980s.

The Chinese government considers the island to be one more province under its sovereignty and advocates its reunification under the principle of ‘one China, two systems’.