April 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Taiwan authorities reported this Saturday that they have detected 16 fighter jets and eight 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 16 aircraft was recorded around Taiwan and that twelve of them have crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered the identification zone of air defense of the island.
“Taiwan's armed forces have monitored the situation and have used appropriate forces to respond,” Defense added in a post on the social network X, formerly Twitter.
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.
