China sends 47 aircraft across Taiwan Strait in new ‘strike drill’


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Taipei, Taiwan CNN — China sent 47 aircraft across the median line of the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, its largest incursion into Taiwan’s air defense zone in recent months, as Beijing steps-up efforts to normalize aggressive military operations around the self-ruled island. The incursions, part of a so-called “strike drill,” were made by 42 J-10, J-11, J-16 and Su-30 fighter jets, two Y-8 maritime patrol aircrafts, a KJ-500 early warning aircraft, as well as a CH-4 and a WZ-7 military drone, according to the Taiwanese defense ministry. It added that a total of 71 Chinese aircraft were spotted around the...