Taiwan says Chinese jets made record 380 incursions in 2020

"The 380 incursions into our southwest ADIZ in 2020 are a lot more frequent than the past," said defense ministry spokesman Shih Shun-wen. "This... poses a threat to regional and our national security." Chinese aircraft targeted the area "to test our military's response, to exert pressure on our aerial defense and to squeeze the aerial space for our activities", he added. The figures came as the military-affiliated Institute for National Defense and Security Research warned in an annual report on the People's Liberation Army that "the Chinese military threat was the highest since the 1996 missile crisis in Taiwan Strait"….