Ten Chinese air force aircraft entered Taiwan's air defence zone . . . Of those aircraft, the ministry said 10 had either crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, which previously served as an unofficial barrier between the two sides, or entered the southwestern part of Taiwan's air defence identification zone, or ADIZ.

For those unfamiliar with the Air Defense Identification Zone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Defense_Identification_Zone_(Taiwan)

Not only does it include a lot of water that isn't part of the Strait, right off of China's coast, it also includes a portion of Mainland China a few times larger than Taiwan itself.

People like to talk like China is flying jets over Taipei City, but you can fly a plane from one city in Mainland China to another, only passing over land, and be in this zone. Mind you, I don't think Taiwan having this zone is bad -- countries generally should be aware of air traffic nearby -- but this is part of a long history of alarmist headlines by western media regarding what is often very uninteresting air traffic in the PRC.

[–] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Lmao Taiwan existing is bad

[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So Chinese bots are on lemmy too now. You obviously didn't read the article - "Of those aircraft, the ministry said 10 had either crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, which previously served as an unofficial barrier between the two sides, or entered the southwestern part of Taiwan's air defence identification zone, or ADIZ."

In international relations, militaries have defined and at times unspoken rules of engagement. This was NOT routine flight over mainland China that you are making out to be, but was a clear breach of said protocols. Thus Taiwan sent its fighter jets to observe the Chinese military aircraft.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Everyone who disagrees with me must be a bot.

I bet your response will contain one of more of the following: Winnie the Pooh, social credit, comrade, Uyghurs. Yet you call others bots, lmao.

[–] MadSurgeon@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Uyghurs are experiencing a genocide in China and you think it's spamming to bring it up?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I can't believe people are still trying to peddle this conspiracy theory in year 2023.

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So Chinese bots are on lemmy too now.

Amazing how comfortable you are being racist on a public forum.

Anyway, people should look at this map and take note of how far Taiwan's ADIZ extends into Fujian province of mainland China and the open ocean (which is the southwest corner the PRC's airplanes were supposedly encroaching on). These articles are obviously published to make China seem more aggressive than it really is. Meanwhile the US, with the most powerful navy in the world, parades its warships through the Taiwan strait, which for some reason is not seen as a threat or provocation. Also Taiwan claims the mainland as its own territory. Oh, poor little Taiwan. Lol, get off it.

[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How is calling out a Chinese bot or Russian bot racist? You are obviously pro-China and you didn't read the article. That makes you a Chinese bot.

[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"How am I being racist? I'm just assuming anyone who disagrees with me must be a certain ethnicity and/or bot."

This really isn't too complicated. Stop using Chinese as a pejorative and "bot" as a thought terminating cliche. It prevents any meaningful discussion, and yes, it's also very racist.

[–] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago

Hush hexbear

[–] Fox@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fuck the CCP

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

My dude calls people statists but then also cites death tolls spouted by the US State department on Mao's casualties is a level of mental gymnastics that may finally dethrone the Maga morons.

I'm sure there's some explanation for how Mao killed 100,000,000 people but somehow the population of China went up and the life expectancy doubled under him. It can't be because the US stat dept. exaggerated the deaths by an exponent tho.

这个老外真过瘾，哈哈