{"id":30555,"date":"2023-03-02T05:58:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T05:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=30555"},"modified":"2023-03-02T05:58:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T05:58:42","slug":"taiwan-sees-second-chinese-air-incursion-as-us-agrees-arms-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=30555","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan sees second Chinese air incursion as US agrees arms sale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Jazeera:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taiwan has reported a large-scale Chinese air force incursion into its air defence zone for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/3\/1\/taiwan-says-19-chinese-fighter-jets-entered-air-defence-zone\">second day running<\/a>, just as the United States approved the potential sale of $619m in weapons to the island \u2013 including hi-tech missiles for Taiwan\u2019s F-16 fighter jets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry said a total of 21 Chinese combat planes \u2013 17 Chengdu J-10 multirole fighters and four advanced Shenyang J-16 strike fighters \u2013 had flown into the southwestern corner of the island\u2019s air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The J-10s, an older fighter model that first entered service 20 years ago, flew closer to the Chinese coast than Taiwan\u2019s, while the J-16s, a much newer and more advanced fighter, flew in an area to the northeast of the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands, according to a map of the incident released by the ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera: Taiwan has reported a large-scale Chinese air force incursion into its air defence zone for a second day running, just as the United States approved the potential sale of $619m in weapons to the island \u2013 including hi-tech missiles for Taiwan\u2019s F-16 fighter jets. Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry said a total of 21 Chinese combat planes \u2013 17 Chengdu J-10 multirole fighters and four advanced Shenyang J-16 strike fighters \u2013 had flown into the southwestern corner of the island\u2019s air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on Thursday. The J-10s, an older fighter model that first entered service 20 years ago,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30557,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30555\/revisions\/30557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}