Taiwan scrambles jets, local resident unfazed by China drills

Record ID: 1987530

  • Title: Taiwan scrambles jets, local resident unfazed by China drills
  • Date: 1st April 2025
  • Summary: HSINCHU, TAIWAN (APRIL 1, 2025) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF FIGHTER JETS AT AIRBASE VARIOUS OF FIGHTER JETS PREPARING TO TAKE OFF FIGHTER JET TAKING OFF STUDENT, CHEN ZHENG-HUNG, LOOKING AT MOBILE PHONE NEAR AIRBASE (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) STUDENT, 21-YEAR-OLD , CHEN ZHENG-HUNG, SAYING: “I’m used to it because drills have been going on for a few years, we have been seeing news abo
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  • Keywords: China Taiwan airbase drills fighter jets reaction
  • Location: HSINCHU, TAIWAN
  • City: HSINCHU, TAIWAN
  • Country: Taiwan
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA001320101042025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Taiwan scrambled fighter jets to monitor China's joint army, navy and rocket force exercises around Taiwan on Tuesday (April 1) as Beijing called their drills a "stern warning" against separatism.
    A local resident who watched the jets taking off at the Taiwanese airbase in Hsinchu said he was “used to” the exercises.
    The exercises around the democratically governed island, which China views as its own territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring under its control, come after Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te called Beijing a "foreign hostile force" last month.
    Taiwan's Defence Ministry said in a statement that China's Shandong aircraft carrier group had entered the island's response area on Monday (March 31), adding that it had dispatched military aircraft and ships and activated land-based missile systems in response.
    (Production: Annabelle Chih, Angie Teo)
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