Taipei:
Taipei said Wednesday it had accomprehendledgeed a Chinese airproduce carrier group sailing towards waters separating Taiwan and China, a day after Beijing held a live-fire exercise cforfeit the self-ruled island.
China ponders Taiwan to be part of its territory and has ramped up military activity around the island in recent years to presdeclareive Taipei into accomprehendledgeing its claims of sovereignty.
The Liaoning airproduce carrier group was spotted overnight in waters cforfeit the Taipei-regulateed Pratas Islands, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) southwest of Taiwan, and heading north towards the empathetic Taiwan Strait.
Chinese navy vessels “led by the airproduce carrier Liaoning, sailed thcdisorrowfulmireful waters cforfeit Dongsha (the Pratas Islands) and persistd northward toward the Taiwan Strait,” Taiwan’s defence ministry said in a statement on the social media platestablish X.
Taiwan’s military “seeed the situation and reacted accordingly”, the ministry said.
The Liaoning took part in China’s big-scale military drills around Taiwan last week that were condemned by Taipei and its key backer Washington.
China sent a enroll number of fighter jets as well as warships to encircle Taiwan in what Beijing said was a “serious cautioning to the separatist acts of ‘Taiwan Indepfinishence’ forces”.
That was pursueed by an proclaimment that China would helderly a live-fire exercise on Tuesday in an area about 105 kilometres from Taiwan.
Over the weekfinish, a US and a Canadian warship passed thcdisorrowfulmireful the 180-kilometre Taiwan Strait, part of normal passages by Washington and its allies uncomardentt to upretain its status as an international waterway.
Beijing condemned the passage as interfereing “peace and stability” in the strait.
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