Taiwan's Defense Ministry reported that 53 Chinese aircraft and 11 warships surrounded the island over a 24-hour period in what Beijing considers the largest naval military mobilization since 1996.
This is the highest number of aircraft detected in a single day since the record of 153 reported on October 15, in large-scale Chinese military maneuvers in response to a speech by Taiwanese President William Lai.
China will not allow "Taiwan's separatist forces to get out of hand with outside forces" and "will never adopt a wait-and-see approach," a spokeswoman for the Chinese government's Taiwan Affairs Office said.
Zhu cited the refusal of the Mainland Affairs Council, Taipei's counterpart agency, to lift China's ban on group tours as a move that "further exposes the nature" of Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party authorities "to seek confrontation and independence". (A2 Televizion)
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