{"id":17935,"date":"2023-12-20T00:22:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T05:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=17935"},"modified":"2023-12-20T00:22:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T05:22:38","slug":"chinese-balloon-detected-crossing-taiwan-strait-median-line-taiwan-defence-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/chinese-balloon-detected-crossing-taiwan-strait-median-line-taiwan-defence-ministry\/17935\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese balloon detected crossing Taiwan Strait median line: Taiwan Defence Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s Ministry of National Defence on Wednesday announced that 8 Chinese Peoples Liberation Army aircraft and 3 PLAN vessels around Taiwan were detected at 6 am UTC. One KJ-500 airborne early warning and control plane\u2013one of the eight People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft\u2013entered Taiwan\u2019s air defence identification zone (ADIZ) in the southwest, according to the MND. The Ministry said that the Taiwan Armed Forces have monitored the situation and tasked appropriate forces to respond.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">8 PLA aircraft and 3 PLAN vessels around Taiwan were detected by 6 a.m.(UTC+8) today. 1 of the detected aircraft (KJ-500 AEW&C) had entered Taiwan\u2019s SW ADIZ. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ROCArmedForces?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ROCArmedForces<\/a> have monitored the situation and tasked appropriate forces to respond. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wK38XPbAuG\">pic.twitter.com\/wK38XPbAuG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u570b\u9632\u90e8 Ministry of National Defense, ROC(Taiwan) \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddfc (@MoNDefense) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoNDefense\/status\/1737296627222859796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Defence in Taiwan further said that one PRC balloon was detected on Tuesday after crossing the median line of the Taiwan Strait at the location 63 nautical miles NW of Keelung with an altitude of approximately 12,000 feet. The balloon headed east and disappeared in the early hours of Wednesday. To monitor PLA operations, Taiwan also sent planes, naval ships, and deployed air defence missile systems, Taiwan News reported.<\/p>\n<p>China has been using gray zone tactics more often since September 2020, gradually expanding the number of military planes and navy vessels in the Taiwan area, according to Taiwan News. \u201cAn effort or series of efforts beyond steady-state deterrence and assurance that attempts to achieve one\u2019s security objectives without resorting to direct and sizable use of force\u201d is how gray zone tactics are defined. On Tuesday, Taiwan\u2019s Ministry of Defence said that 4 PLA aircraft and 3 PLAN vessels around Taiwan were detected. Armed Forces have monitored the situation and tasked appropriate forces to respond.<\/p>\n<p>One PRC\u2019s balloon was detected on Monday after crossing the median line of the Taiwan Strait at the location 67 nautical miles northwest of Keelung and altitude of approximately 15,000 feet. The balloon headed east and disappeared. Notably, Beijing has sent 122 navy vessels and 182 military aircraft around Taiwan so far this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s Ministry of National Defence on Wednesday announced that 8 Chinese Peoples Liberation Army aircraft and 3 PLAN vessels around\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":17936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[5578,5583,158,5580,5582,5577,3504,4648,165,3874,5581,5579],"class_list":["post-17935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-air-force","tag-balloon","tag-china","tag-chinese-peoples-liberation-army","tag-gray-zone","tag-military-deployment","tag-navy","tag-spy-balloon","tag-taiwan","tag-taiwan-strait","tag-taiwans-air-defence-identification-zone-adiz","tag-taiwans-ministry-of-national-defence"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}