Taiwan’s military for the first time shoots down an unidentified civilian drone that entered its airspace near an islet off the Chinese coast.
Taiwan’s government has said it will not provoke or escalate tensions but has been particularly angered recently by repeated cases of Chinese drones buzzing islands controlled by Taiwan close to China’s coast.
Troops on the islet tried warning it away but to no effect, so shot it down, with the remains landing in the sea, it added.for the first time on Tuesday shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen ordered the military to take “strong countermeasures” against what she termed Chinese provocations.
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