Handout photo shows a Taiwanese F-16 fighter jet flying next to a Chinese H-6 bomber in February 2020. TAIPEI: Chinese fighter jets crowding Taiwan’s radar screens are Beijing’s latest tool to ramp up pressure on the democratic island, sparking fears that one mistake could suddenly turn a festering cold conflict into an all-out war. Self-ruled Taiwan has lived under the threat of a Chinese invasion since the two sides split at the end of a civil war in 1949. Its 23 million people have since learned to cope with periods of sabre-rattling from Beijing. But the sudden spike in Chinese war planes crossing into the island’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ) has focused attention on Taiwan, fuelling concerns it could become a global flashpoint. AFP has compiled a database that documents all the known incursions since Taiwan’s defence ministry began making them public in September 2020, showing how sorties have crescendoed in frequency and size. The most dramatic incursion occurred at the start of this month as China marked its annual national day when a record 149 flights crossed into Taiwan’s southwestern air defence zone in four days. Adding aggressiveness to the incursions, some of them even got personal. In… Read full this story
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