China THREATENS World War 3 with plan to continue to fly WARPLANES over Taiwan
CHINA has warned it could send its fighter jets to watch over the self-ruling island of Taiwan and claimed there is nothing Taipei can do about it, in a worrying escalation in the conflict between the two countries.
By MARTINA BET
Express.co.uk
Tue, May 22, 2018
China has been developing some of the most advanced fighter jets in Asia and has previously tested them during drills that simulated “actual war conditions.”
Relations between Beijing and Taipei have deteriorated since the communists came to power in China back in 1949.
Now, Wang Mingling, a military scholar at the China National Defence University has warned Beijing will continue its military action above Taiwan.
He said: “China’s stealth fighters could conduct patrols close to or above Taiwan.”
“J-20s can come and go at will above Taiwan.”
The scholar added Taiwanese military elites do not know much about China’s stealth fighters and the “antiquated” F-16s and Mirage 2000s, which are the backbone of Taiwan’s air defence, could hardly take on the squadron of Chinese warplanes.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen vowed last week to step up security but gave no details on possible new security measures.
She previously pledged to raise defence spending and said during an interview: “We will strengthen our work for the whole society’s security and especially look out for these factors from China, whether they affect our Taiwanese society’s security.”
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