39 Chinese warplanes seen near ADIZ
Hong Kong: China continues to enter in Taiwan’s air defence zone. Recently thirty-nine Chinese warplanes breached the air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on Sunday.
"No doubt this is part of the broader campaign by Beijing aimed at eroding the will and ability of Taiwan to continue resisting," said Collin Koh, a research fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.
While the Chinese incursions were likely a reaction to the large naval presence Tokyo and Washington were putting in the area, they also served another purpose, said Koh.
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.
The Philippine Sea is the area of the Pacific Ocean eas