By Tyler Durden
Taiwan is expressing outrage after China flew a total 38 military aircraft inside the island’s Air Defense Identification Zone on Friday. In a Saturday statement Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang blasted China as having been “wantonly engaged in military aggression” which is “damaging regional peace”.
The Friday flyovers came in two separate incursions, which happened on China’s ‘National Day’ which marked the establishment of the communist People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949. Initially Taiwan’s defense ministry said 25 total jets breached its air defense identification zone Friday (ADIZ) in the first incident.
The self-ruled island scramble air patrols and additionally put its anti-air missile defenses on high alert. Later into the evening, 13 more were recorded inside the ADIZ in a separate breach, totaling a record-smashing 38 Chinese aircraft.
