China sent 39 warplanes into Taiwan's air defense identification zone on Sunday, Taiwan's Defense Ministry said, the largest such incursion this year.
The flights by the People's Liberation Army aircraft came a day after the United States and Japanese navies put on a massive show of force in the Philippine Sea, putting together a flotilla that included two US Navy aircraft carriers, two US amphibious assault ships and a Japanese helicopter destroyer, essentially a small aircraft carrier.#NavyPartnerships supporting a #FreeandOpenIndoPacific 🇺🇸 ⚓ 🇯🇵 pic.twitter.
— U.S. Navy January 23, 2022 Two US guided-missile cruisers and five destroyers were also part of the exercise. The Philippine Sea is the area of the Pacific Ocean east of Taiwan, between the self-ruled island and the US territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. The Navy did not say how close the flotilla was to Taiwan.Aircraft fly over a US-Japan naval flotilla that included two US aircraft carriers in the Philippine Sea on Saturday.
Taiwan's President: Threat from China is growing every day 07:32Read MoreChinese warplane incursionsTaiwan and mainland China have been governed separately since the defeated Nationalists retreated to the island at the end of the Chinese civil war more than 70 years ago. But China's ruling Chinese Communist Party views the self-ruled island as part of its territory -- despite having never controlled it.
Taiwan holds ceremony for advanced F-16V fighter jets 02:11"The latest major flyby, while obviously targeted at the allied show of force in the Philippine Sea, will definitely have some intended reinforcement effect on the ongoing debates in Taiwan," Koh said.
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