Beijing has placed 34 warplanes and four ships on “combat readiness” patrols near Taiwan in a chilling threat as invasion fears soar.
Taipei’s defense ministry said it detected the military aircraft, including two SU-30 fighters, with up to 29 crossing the unofficial median line in the Taiwan Strait.
China opposes NATO’s move into Asia-Pacific region, warns of ‘resolute response’
China resolutely opposes NATO’s “eastward movement into the Asia-Pacific region” and warned any action threatening Beijing’s rights would be met with a resolute response, the country’s mission to the European Union said in a statement.
The statement released late Tuesday said China rejects the China-related content in NATO’s joint communique from its summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, and will firmly safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests.
“Any act that jeopardises China’s legitimate rights and interests will be met with a resolute response,” it said.
Beijing has reacted angrily to a NATO communique portraying China as a major challenge to the group’s interests and security.
In a strongly worded communique issued halfway through their two-day summit in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, NATO leaders said the People’s Republic of China challenged the alliance’s interests, security and values with its “stated ambitions and coercive policies”.
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