2nd largest jets incursion hits Taiwan

By Agence France-Presse

Jan 25, 2022 12:16 am

TAIPEI: China sent 39 warplanes — mostly fighter jets — into Taiwan's air defense zone on Sunday, the island's government said, in the second-largest daily incursion on record.

Taiwan lives under the constant threat of invasion by China, which sees the self-ruled, democratic island as part of its territory to eventually be reclaimed, by force if necessary.

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