PLA could send jets over Taiwan to defend sovereignty if US military jets fly over island

Early Saturday morning Beijing time, US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Tony Wickman, director of public affairs for US Pacific Air Forces, said the US Air Forces’ original statement that an RC-135W spy plane had flown over the northern end of the island of Taiwan “was incorrect.” Wickman’s statement came after the island’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities had twice denied, on Wednesday and Friday, that the plane had flown over the island. This shows that both the US and the island of Taiwan realize the seriousness of such a flight. Whether or not the spy plane actually flew over the…