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Chinese jets enter Taiwanese air zone forcing it to deploy missiles China-Taiwan

Chinese jets enter Taiwanese air zone forcing it to deploy missiles

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | 19 Feb 2021, 10:07 pm

Taipei/UNI: As many as eight Chinese fighter jets entered Taiwan's southwestern part of the air defence identification zone forcing Taiwan to activates its missile system here on Friday.

Taiwan’s Defence Ministry said in a statement on Friday that four Chinese J-16s and four JH-7s along with an electronic warfare aircraft flew close to the Pratas Islands which are controlled by Taiwan located in the top part of the South China Sea, into the southwestern area of its air defence identification zone, Al Jazeera reported.

The ministry said Taiwan’s air force was scrambled, and its air defence missile systems deployed to monitor the Chinese activity”.

China has so far not commented on the incident.

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