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China sends 30 planes into Taiwan air defence zone

Taiwan says J-11 fighters were among the aircraft encroaching into its ADIZ on Monday [File: US Navy/Handout via Reuters]

China has made its second-largest incursion into Taiwan’s air defence zone this year, as Taipei signalled it planned to deepen security ties with the United States.

Taiwan’s defence ministry said that 30 Chinese military aircraft, two-thirds of them fighter jets, entered the southwestern part of its air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on Monday and that it had scrambled its own air force and deployed air defence missile systems in response.

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