KAOSHUNG: A record 38 Chinese military jets crossed into Taiwan's defense zone as Beijing marked the founding of the People's Republic of China, Taipei said on Saturday.

The show of force on China's National Day on Friday near the self-ruled democratic island, which Beijing claims as part of its territory, came in the same week it accused Britain of sending a warship into the Taiwan Strait with "evil intentions."

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