Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen has called for Chinese warplanes that cross a maritime line separating the two sides to be 'forcefully expelled.'
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen has called for Chinese warplanes that cross a maritime line separating the two sides to be"forcefully expelled."
"I have ordered the military to forcefully expel any incursions across the 'median line' immediately," she said, according to a CNBC translation of her post written in Chinese. The so-called median line on the Taiwan Strait separates mainland China from the island. According to risk consultancy Stratfor, the incident on Sunday is"one of the most serious incursions by People's Liberation Army Air Force fighter jets on the Taiwanese side of the maritime border this century."
"It could result in Taiwanese fighters making their own incursions on the west side of the line, which in turn could lead to a cycle of tit-for-tat provocations coming amid already-tense cross-strait relations," the report added.When asked about the encounter in the Taiwan Strait at a scheduled press conference on Monday, China's foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said he was"not aware" of the matter.
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