Posted on 02/24/2022 9:05:52 AM PST by Red Badger
9 PLA aircraft (Y-8 RECCE and J-16*8) entered #Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ on February 24, 2022. Please check our official website for more information: https://t.co/Uz6XjMcLc8 pic.twitter.com/W4OIgYQ7HS
— 國防部 Ministry of National Defense, R.O.C. 🇹🇼 (@MoNDefense) February 24, 2022
Taiwan’s defense minister confirms 9 Chinese military have entered Taiwan’s air defense zone.
Taiwan’s MoD claims 9 Chinese military aircraft entered its air defense identification zone pic.twitter.com/ShLtpcWNUI
— RT (@RT_com) February 24, 2022
#BREAKING: Taiwan Ministry of National Defense says that 9 Chinese PLA aircraft (Y-8 RECCE and J-16*8) entered #Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ on February 24, 2022. (China has repeatedly intruded into Taiwanese air space. Not surprised today. Messaging being done.) pic.twitter.com/fcFZdC5eI3
— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) February 24, 2022
This is a daily occurrence and it is NOT indicative of an amphibious invasion of Taiwan.
Most interesting graphic I’ve seen in 20 years.
9 whole planes.
They were going to fly partial planes, but they wouldn't take off.
But yes, this is a daily occurrence, and they have flown squadrons of over 20 before.
The A-10 can fly at around 80% “there”.
Let’s hope Taiwan doesn’t get froggy. .
Taiwan won’t start anything. China might.
I’ll bet resident Huggies is ALL OVER this development.<p.
Well, he’s ALL OVER dropping a sharty deuce in his Huggies for Doc Jill to clean up, anyways...
Xi is cheating. Some of those pieces belong to Soros and Schwab.
I would expect no less..................
The Chinese are simply ‘testing-the-waters,’ so to speak. Russian aircraft are always ‘testing-the-waters’ around Alaska. I’m also sure that our aircraft routinely ‘test-the-waters’ of other countries. The CIA still has SR-71s/YF-12s. But shhhhhhhhhh! ;-)
So, does Hillary move like a horse?
That piece just falls down.
Very true but sooooommmmeday.
It aint gonna be a head fake.
Most likely you are correct. But, the timing is interesting. Putin launches the Ukraine invasion despite threats of harsh sanctions. (So that I am clear, I do not believe Ukraine is our fight. This is in Europe’s backyard and those countries must step up to protect their own house). Meanwhile, here at home, Biden’s flacks, both in the Administration and the house organ media, spin the invasion as the reason for all of our internal problems such as inflation, upwardly spiraling gas prices and supply chain woes. They claim our sanctions will be effective to check Putin but so far he has ignored them. China is watching as the West flails around and so it decides today is a good day to once again test Taiwan and, more importantly, the Western allies. This could be a coincidence but I don’t believe in them. I think we will see more of this in the next few days or weeks and as the weakness of the West’s response continues China will ratchet up the pressure on Taiwan, maybe going so far as implementing a blockade similar to what Putin has now done to the Ukraine.
aaaaannnnnddddd......here we go.
Taiwan controls the Pratas Islands, a small atoll about 250 miles southwest of Taiwan itself. It has a very elongated ADIZ to the southwest covering the atoll and surrounding waters. The PLA airplanes are overflying the northern part of the South China Sea in the vicinity of these islands.
Well, let’s hope. China may be hoping for an offsides call on a fourth and short.
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