A Chinese military drone has entered the air defense zone, Taiwan says


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Share Taiwan said a Chinese military reconnaissance drone entered its air defense zone on Monday, the latest incursion as relations between the two neighbors remain strained. The drone, identified by Taipei’s Ministry of Defense as a BZK-007 vehicle, flew into the southwest corner of the island’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) along with eight Chinese warplanes. Much larger than its airspace, Taiwan’s ADIZ overlaps with part of China’s ADIZ and even includes part of the mainland. China has dramatically increased invasions of Taiwan’s southwestern ADIZ over the past two years, but the use of military drones is rare. The last...