China sends huge fleet of 77 aircraft into the skies over Taiwan in two days in record show of force

CHINA has sent a huge fleet of 77 warplanes over Taiwan’s air defense zone in the last two day in a record show of force. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense reported on Friday that China entered its air space with 38 aircrafts, while 39 flew into their skies yesterday. The war planes included 26 J-16 fighter jets, 10 Su-30 fighter jets, two Y-8 anti-submarine warning aircraft and one KJ-500 airborne early warning and control plane.  Taiwan has been repeatedly reporting missions conducted by China’s air force that enters the democratically-governed island’s air defense zone near the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands. But the incursions in the past two days have beaten the previous record for the most amount of flights – when 28 Chinese military planes flew into the airspace in June. In response to the incursion yesterday the taiwanese air force scrambled its jets, issued radio warnings, and deployed air defense missile systems. Most read in News VICE SQUAD 26 Met cops 'committed sex crimes' as 'two are jailed' after Sarah's murder CHANNEL CRISIS Migrants crossing Channel to UK to be detained in ALBANIA in new crackdown SARAH FIEND SHOCK Killer cop Wayne Couzens showed off a prostitute at Met hotel party 'TERRIBLE PAIN' Football club owner's son, 23, found dead in posh London apartment 'WORST MISTAKE' Mum-of-3 'hooked on conspiracy theories' dies of Covid after refusing jab 'PRISON WITHIN A PRISON' Inside max-security jail where Sarah's killer is on suicide watch Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang told reporters yesterday: “China has been wantonly engaged in military aggression, damaging regional peace.” The defence ministry said 20 aircrafts arrived during the day on Saturday – while 19 more appeared in the evening. It comes as China this weekend celebrated the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. For more than seven decades Taiwan and mainland China have been governed separately – but Beijing still views Taiwan and part of its territory. Taiwan sees itself as a sovereign state, but China sees democratic Taiwan as a breakaway province. Chinese President Xi Jinping has refused to rule out military force to capture Taiwan if necessary. Although China has not yet commented on the aircrafts, it has in the past said it conducted similar flights to fight “collusion” between the United States and Taiwan. In June, 28 Chinese aircraft had entered Taiwan’s air space just a day after the government attacked Taiwan’s foreign minister for attempting to promote Taiwan internationally. Since the event, China has beefed up its military and political pressure on the island to get Taiwan to accept Chinese sovereignty, while Taiwan announced it was an independent country that will defend its democracy. China previously claimed it sent planes to stop “collusion” between the US and Taiwan