www.zerohedge.com BY TYLER DURDEN
On Monday Taiwan scrambled fighter jets to warn away a massive grouping of Chinese PLA aircraft which breached the island’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ)
While such threatening PLA maneuvers in airspace near Taiwan have lately been a frequent occurrence, this fresh incident included a reported 30 Chinese aircraft at once, which is rare for a single occurrence.
According to a Bloomberg review, Monday’s breach of the southwest ADIZ may have been among the top three single largest breaches on record.
“The PLA aircraft conducted 56 flights near Taiwan on Oct. 4 2021, the highest number on record; the highest number in 2022 was 39 on Jan. 23,” Bloomberg notes.
Beijing has sent jets near the island as a ‘warning’ to Taipei pro-independence leaders almost weekly for the past two years.
