TAIPEI: Taiwan's defense chief on Friday called China's recent military activities "abnormal," after a spike in incursions by Beijing's warplanes around the island this week.

China claims the self-ruling democratic island as its territory and has insisted it will retake it one day by force, if necessary.

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