China planes, ships detected around Taiwan as US destroyer passes Strait

Taipei’s defence ministry said Thursday it had detected 23 Chinese warplanes and five navy warships around the island, a day after a US warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait. The military presence around Taiwan comes less than two weeks before its inauguration of incoming president Lai Ching-te, who Beijing regards as a “dangerous separatist”. […]

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