(Taipei/Beijing Comprehensive News) On the occasion of large -scale activities around the Taiwan Strait, a Chinese military aircraft was launched around the Taiwan Strait.Follow the supervisor.
Comprehensive Reuters and United News Network reported that the P-8A sea god maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft that can also be used for anti-submarine mission can also be used.The Seventh Fleet of the U.S. Navy issued a statement saying that the aircraft flew over the Taiwan Strait in the international airspace.
Statement stated: "The United States has carried out operations in the Taiwan Strait in accordance with the International Law, maintaining the navigation rights and freedom of all countries."
The WeChat public account of the Eastern Theater of the Chinese People's Liberation Army issued a response from Shi Yi, a spokesman for a spokesperson on the same day, criticizing the US "public speculation" to pass the Taiwan Strait, and said that the theater organized a fighter aircraft to quit the US aircraft with the United States.The troops always maintain a high alert and resolutely defend the national sovereign security and regional peace and stability. "
The Department of Defense of Taiwan said that the US military aircraft was flying along the middle of the Taiwan Strait on Thursday morning from north to south. The Taiwanese side had discovered 26 sub-military aircraft in the morning and responded to P-8A US aircraft, of which 13 were over the Taiwan Strait Middle Line.And enter the southwest airspace in Taiwan.
The Ministry of National Defense of Taiwan also reported that from 6 am on Wednesday (July 12) until Thursday (July 13) at 6 am, the Taiwan military has been detected by 33 major military aircraft and nine warships.Around the Taiwan Strait, the midline of the Passover Strait and its extension line enters 24 air domains in the southwest and southeast.In the previous 24 hours, the Taiwanese side had discovered 32 major military aircraft crossing the middle line of the Strait, the largest in three months.