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“Beijing is replacing its commitment to a peaceful resolution with an increasingly aggressive posture,” Tsai claimed.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文 Cài Yīngwén) weighed in with an essay in Foreign Affairs today (although the essay had been commissioned before the latest fly-bys): Reaction to the Chinese air force activity Taiwan’s MND does not count Chinese air force activity over the mainland as ADIZ violations, the scholar Gerald Brown points out.

Taiwan’s claimed ADIZ technically extends far north and into China’s Fujian Province, but that part of the zone is not recognized by the United States, which has been a driving force behind establishing ADIZs since the 1950s.

Some media, including Reuters, use the shortened term “ air defense zone” to refer to the ADIZ.

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Map and research by Louis Martin-Vézian of CIGeography, used with permission. Some aircraft then continued on to the southeastern part of Taiwan’s ADIZ, as you can see in this map: Instead, China’s aircraft all flew around the median line and into the southwestern part of Taiwan’s ADIZ, the “airspace where the island’s authorities assert the right to tell entering planes to identify themselves and their purpose,” the New York Times reports. Taiwan’s ADIZ is not the same as its sovereign airspace - a much tighter area reaching 12 nautical miles from its coast - and crossing into it does not mean these aircraft crossed the “median line” of the Taiwan Strait, either. 56 ADIZ incursions were reported on October 4, the largest number in a single day since September 2020, when the MND began publicly releasing statistics.According to Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND), a “total of 149 Chinese aircraft entered Taiwan’s ADIZ” (air defense identification zone) between October 1 and 4, Focus Taiwan reports.

Since October 1, China has sent an unusually large number of military planes into the airspace near Taiwan.