China Increases Aggression Toward Liberal Island, Sends 39 Aircraft Into Taiwan Defense Zone

MP urges like-minded countries to conduct joint intercepts of Chinese incursions

Chinese J-15 fighter jets are launching from the deck of the Liaoning aircraft carrier during military drills in the Yellow Sea, off China's east coast on Dec. 23, 2016.  STR/AFP via Getty Images

TAIPEI—A total of 39 Chinese air force aircraft entered Taiwan’s air defense zone on Saturday, the defense ministry in Taipei said, setting a new high in the communist regime’s aggressive provocations aimed at the people living in Taiwan, which provides a stark contrast to Beijing’s totalitarian rule.

Taiwan, a democratically governed island to which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wants to lay claim, has complained of repeated Chinese missions into its airspace, often in the southwestern part of its air defense zone close to the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands, for over a year, in a warning to the world over the CCP’s increasing military aggression.