Taiwan reported 45 Chinese warplanes in its airspace within 24 hours, according to its defense ministry on Wednesday.
The record number of Chinese daily sorties this year comes ahead of President-elect Lai Ching-te’s inauguration on May 20.
The ministry said that “26 of the aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait,” referring to a line bisecting the 180-kilometer (110-mile) waterway separating Taiwan and China. Beijing does not recognize this unofficial boundary.
Six Chinese Navy vessels were also detected, according to the statement.
Taipei emphasized it was monitoring the situation closely and urged Beijing to exercise self-restraint.
“Since late April they have become more and more provocative,” the senior Taiwanese security official said.
The Official title of Taiwan is The Republic of China.
They still allowed the KMT (aka The Chinese Nationalist Party), to participate in their Democracy even though it ran the country as an anti-democracy Authoritarian state for 40 years.
Taiwan and China do a lot of trade together, a war would be difficult for both of them.