At present, the PLA military aircraft cruised in the Taiwan Strait has long become normalized, but Taiwan media has once again hyped it up. According to Taiwanese media reports on December 31, the PLA military aircraft entered Taiwan's southwest airspace at around 12 noon that day, with an altitude of 2,500 meters. The Taiwan Air Force claimed that it had re-imposed a reboot, and as usual, it carried out the so-called "on-air alert" and "broadcasting and driving away". At the same time, a US Navy P-8A patrol aircraft appeared around Taiwan's southwest airspace and was broadcasting the so-called "declaration of the right to navigate in international airspace." However, the Taiwanese media rarely found something wrong.
According to reports, Taiwanese media found that the so-called "intercepting track" of the Taiwan military actually appeared on a website , and it can also be seen that the route of the tour has been toured many times. According to the fan page of Facebook account "Taiwan Southwest Airspace" fan page, in December alone, the PLA military aircraft had entered Taiwan's airspace for a total of 27 days. A spokesperson for Taiwan’s defense department even conducted a “year-end inventory” on December 31. According to relevant reports, Taiwan’s defense department spokesman Shi Shunwen said at a meeting that in 2020, the number of PLA military aircraft entering the southwest airspace reached more than 380. He also concluded that as of the morning of December 31, the department had released a total of 71 activities of PLA military aircraft entering Taiwan's airspace.
It is worth noting that the Taiwan Air Force also recently announced that the fighter jet rushing performance will be cancelled on New Year's Day in 2021. The reason for is to focus on "responding to" the combat readiness cruise operations of PLA military aircraft. It is obvious that in the past three months, the Taiwan Air Force has been exhausted and has been too busy to handle it, just thinking about having more rest time. In fact, once the PLA military aircraft appears in the Taiwan Strait , not only the Taiwan Air Force, but also the Taiwan Navy and other branches of the army will also be dispatched intensively. Lieutenant General Jiang Zhengguo, deputy logistics chief of the Taiwan Army's relevant departments, pointed out that according to the regional situation, it is estimated that the maintenance budget of the three armies in 2021 will increase NT$2 billion and the fuel expenses by NT$1 billion.
As the New Year is approaching, some media wrote an article pointing out that looking back at Taiwan in 2020, the impression given by people can be summarized in eight words , "Taiwan independence" is noisy and Taiwan is lonely. Regarding the PLA military aircraft cruised in the Taiwan Strait, Colonel Tan Kefei, spokesperson of the Ministry of National Defense, once said that if the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces dare to split Taiwan from China in any name or in any way, we will definitely defeat it at all costs.
