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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5022210" data-attributes="member: 48469">The Chinese seem to&nbsp; believe they’ve got a window of heightened American weakness to work with.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/04/asia/taiwan-china-warplane-incursion-monday-intl/index.html[/URL]“Taiwan&#039;s Defense Ministry said 56 <a href="https://apple.news/AbmJXYMVeSTy6RL-Q95dqrA" target="_blank">Chinese warplanes</a> made incursions into its air defense identification zone on Monday, the highest number since the island began publicly reporting such activities last year.It said earlier in the day that 52 military planes had encroached into the zone, before reporting that four more entered the airspace in the evening. The previous record was <a href="https://apple.news/AbmJXYMVeSTy6RL-Q95dqrA" target="_blank">posted on Saturday</a>, when 39 Chinese military planes flew into the zone.In a statement, the <a href="https://apple.news/AbmJXYMVeSTy6RL-Q95dqrA" target="_blank">Taiwanese Defense Ministry</a> said the 56 Chinese aircraft included 38 J-16 fighter jets, 12 H-6 bombers, two SU-30 fighters, two Y-8 anti-submarine warfare planes and two KJ-500 airborne early warning and control planes.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5022210, member: 48469"] The Chinese seem to believe they’ve got a window of heightened American weakness to work with. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/04/asia/taiwan-china-warplane-incursion-monday-intl/index.html[/URL] “Taiwan's Defense Ministry said 56 [URL='https://apple.news/AbmJXYMVeSTy6RL-Q95dqrA']Chinese warplanes[/URL] made incursions into its air defense identification zone on Monday, the highest number since the island began publicly reporting such activities last year. It said earlier in the day that 52 military planes had encroached into the zone, before reporting that four more entered the airspace in the evening. The previous record was [URL='https://apple.news/AbmJXYMVeSTy6RL-Q95dqrA']posted on Saturday[/URL], when 39 Chinese military planes flew into the zone. In a statement, the [URL='https://apple.news/AbmJXYMVeSTy6RL-Q95dqrA']Taiwanese Defense Ministry[/URL] said the 56 Chinese aircraft included 38 J-16 fighter jets, 12 H-6 bombers, two SU-30 fighters, two Y-8 anti-submarine warfare planes and two KJ-500 airborne early warning and control planes.” [/QUOTE]

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