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Taiwan has had 950 intrusions by military planes from the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) into its Air Defense Identification Zone so far in 2021, up 60% over the previous year.
Furthermore, Taiwanese media said that the island is expecting an increase in the number of invasions as China has increased sorties in recent years.
According to Taiwan News, when tensions mount over big political events on both sides of the Taiwan Strait in 2022, the number of flights is projected to rise even more.
According to Bloomberg, Kuo Yu-jen, head of the Institute for National Policy Research, “China will send more military fighter jets into Taiwan’s ADIZ next year with more terrifying missions.”
The situation in the ADIZ will need to be properly monitored, according to Kuo, because it is a “turning moment.”
Since mid-September last year, Beijing has boosted its grey-zone tactics by sending planes into Taiwan’s ADIZ on a regular basis, with the bulk of occurrences involving one to three slow-flying turboprop planes and occuring in the zone’s southwest quadrant.
Despite the fact that the two sides have been controlled independently for more than seven decades, Beijing claims full sovereignty over Taiwan, a democracy with a population of about 24 million people off mainland China’s southern coast.
Taiwan, on the other hand, has averted Chinese aggression by strengthening strategic connections with democracies, particularly the US, which Beijing has consistently chastised. China has stated that “Taiwanese independence” will result in violence.
