November 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry has estimated that 41 Chinese Army fighter jets have approached its airspace in the past 48 hours, 35 of them on Saturday alone, in an alert that comes just before the expected meeting in Bali. (Indonesia) between US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
The Taiwanese Defense Ministry confirmed on Saturday the incursions of 36 planes and three boats, while this Sunday it has identified five combat planes and three other boats.
Of these, 21 planes approached the median that separates the Taiwan Strait and marks its security zone.
The Island Government has made use of its social networks to publicize the situation, which has been responded to with the deployment of its own aircraft and military ships while the defense system has been set up.
All this happens less than 24 hours after Biden and Xi put Taiwan’s status on the table and the controversy unleashed at the time by the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nacny Pelosi, to a territory that Beijing has been around for decades. claiming for himself.
Pelosi’s visit was considered by China one of the worst diplomatic aggressions in recent times, interpreting it as a gesture of recognition.
As US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan announced yesterday, Biden will inform Xi at the meeting that the US Army will expand its military presence in the Indo-Pacific region if Beijing does not help defuse the tension with North Korea.
Sullivan said any further North Korean missile tests would “simply result in an increase in the US military and security presence in the region.”