Taiwan president says drills show China is threat to region

https://www.reuters.com ^ | 9/20/2020 | By Ben Blanchard

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Two days of Chinese military aircraft approaching Taiwan demonstrate that Beijing is a threat to the entire region and have shown Taiwanese even more clearly the true nature of China’s government, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Sunday.

Multiple Chinese aircraft flew across the mid-line of the Taiwan Strait and into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on Friday and Saturday, causing Taiwan to scramble jets to intercept. China claims Taiwan as its own territory.

At a news conference in Beijing on Friday about China’s U.N. peacekeeping efforts, China announced combat drills near the Taiwan Strait and denounced what it called collusion between the island and the United States.

The exercises took place as U.S. Undersecretary for Economic Affairs Keith Krach was in Taipei, the most senior State Department office to come in four decades.

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Pei-Ping

[Big Red Badger]

Always wondered Why
They “Scramble Jets?”
.
Could you
Scramble a Tank?

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Wow! Who’d have guessed that?

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1st strike PRC

[Verginius Rufus]

This morning C-SPAN was showing the Oct. 1960 debate between Kennedy and Nixon in which they discussed Quemoy and Matsu.

I listened to that debate with my parents on the radio (we did not have a TV) and remembered that Quemoy and Matsu had been discussed. What I did not remember was that Kennedy was against defending them from a Communist Chinese attack whereas Nixon was in favor of defending them (comparing it to how Dean Acheson had made a speech implying that we would not defend South Korea shortly before North Korea invaded). In the debate both used "Formosa" as the name for Taiwan.