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Taiwan says 19 Chinese fighter jets entered its air defence zone

Chinese air force planes entered Taiwan's ADIZ on Wednesday - the latest testing of the island's military responses [File: Sam Yeh/AFP]

Taiwan’s defence ministry has observed 19 Chinese air force combat planes entering the island’s air defence zone in the past 24 hours, part of what Taipei calls regular harassment by Beijing.

Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that 19 Chinese J-10 fighters had flown into the southwestern corner of the island’s air defence identification zone, or ADIZ, though they remained closer to China’s coast than Taiwan’s, according to a map the ministry released of the air incursion.

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