On Saturday (Jan. 23), Taiwan said that the Chinese Communist Party dispatched a transport 8 anti-submarine aircraft, eight Boom 6Ks and four J-16s to violate Taiwan’s southwest air defense identification zone; Taiwan’s Air Force dispatched air patrol forces to respond, broadcast repulsion, and air defense missiles to track and monitor. The picture shows a Transport 8 anti-submarine aircraft (the same type of aircraft). (Courtesy of Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense)
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said eight Chinese bombers and four fighter jets entered Taiwan’s southwest air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on Saturday (Jan. 23), and the Taiwan Air Force deployed missiles to “monitor” the intrusion of Chinese military aircraft.
Experts say the number of Boom 6 fighter planes in the ADIZ is the highest ever.
In recent months, Chinese military aircraft have been flying almost daily over the waters between southern Taiwan and the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands in the South China Sea. Previously, however, the Chinese military aircraft that disturbed Taiwan were usually one or two reconnaissance aircraft.
Reuters reported that it was unusual for the Chinese Communist Party to send so many military planes on a mission on Saturday. Taiwan said the CCP dispatched a transport 8 anti-submarine aircraft, eight Boom 6Ks and four J-16s to violate Taiwan’s southwest air defense identification zone; Taiwan’s Air Force dispatched air patrol forces to respond, broadcast repulsions and air defense missiles to track and monitor them.
A map provided by Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense shows that the Chinese communist aircraft flew over the same waters near the Plata Islands where the Chinese side recently carried out its mission. The ministry added that Taiwan’s Air Force warned the Chinese communist aircraft and deployed missiles for surveillance, and also used standard wording in response to the activity of the communist military aircraft.
Chen Guoming, editor-in-chief of Global Defense magazine, told the Central News Agency that the number of Boom 6 warplanes that invaded Taiwan’s air defense identification zone today (Saturday) was the highest ever.
There was no immediate comment from Beijing.
Beijing is increasingly concerned about U.S. support for a democratic Taiwan. Last year, during a visit to Taiwan by senior U.S. officials, Communist Party of China military aircraft briefly crossed the direct median line of the Taiwan Strait, normally an unofficial buffer zone between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
On Saturday, a few days after Biden‘s inauguration, the Chinese Communist Party again sent bombers and fighter jets to disturb Taiwan.
The Central News Agency (CNA) reported that Su Ziyun, director of the Institute of Military Strategy and Industry at Taiwan’s Institute for National Defense and Security Studies, said the Chinese Communist Party’s move was ostensibly a military maneuver, but the political significance was the most important, or “three parts military, seven parts political,” with the most important implication being a warning to the United States.
On the military side, Su Ziyun explained that, unlike the second half of 2020, the main activities of communist aircraft in Taiwan’s southwest sea and airspace are dominated by slow aircraft such as the Yun 8.
Su Ziyun mentioned another military connotation, said the U.S. aircraft carrier group recently suspected in the Philippine Sea or the South China Sea, and the U.S. Navy carrier-specific C2 Greyhound transport aircraft also appeared in the Bus Strait, which indirectly means that the carrier is nearby, the Chinese Communist Party’s mission today belongs to the “political and military complex” action.
Su Ziyun said, U.S. President Joe Biden just took office, in defense and diplomacy and homeland security and other five candidates, have expressed a tough stance on China (China), which may make Beijing more want to use to show muscle, as a response; but the Chinese Communist Party’s move is an unwise choice, a strategic mistake, Beijing’s approach is tantamount to proving to the outside world the Chinese Communist threat theory.
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