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Taiwan reported two PLA aircraft sorties, five PLA Navy ships and six Chinese official ships around the island in the 24 hours ending 6 a.m. local time on September 27, with no reported new exercise, blockade measure or material escalation.
Taiwan reported continuing PLA aircraft, PLAN vessel and Chinese official-ship activity around the island in the 24 hours ending 6 a.m. local time on September 27, with no evidence in the available reporting of a new exercise, blockade measure or material escalation.
After Xi Jinping pressed Donald Trump on 24 September to oppose Taiwan independence, no public U.S. policy change emerged from their White House meeting; Taiwan rejected Beijing's position on 25 September.
Taiwan reported that 10 PLA aircraft, six PLA Navy vessels and six official ships operated around the island in the 24 hours ending 6 a.m. local time on September 23, with nine aircraft crossing the Taiwan Strait median line and entering southwestern and eastern ADIZ sectors.
Taiwan reported that four PLA aircraft crossed the Taiwan Strait median line in the 24 hours ending 6 a.m. local time on September 22, alongside six PLA Navy vessels and three Chinese official ships operating around the island.
Taiwan reported that three PLA aircraft crossed the Taiwan Strait median line during a 24-hour period ending September 21, alongside seven PLA Navy ships and four Chinese official vessels operating around Taiwan.
Taiwan said three of four PLA aircraft crossed the Taiwan Strait median line and entered its air-defence identification zone during the 24 hours ending 06:00 local time on September 21, while seven PLAN vessels and four Chinese official vessels remained active around the island.
Taiwan said that five PLA aircraft, 11 Chinese naval vessels and six official vessels operated around the island in the 24 hours ending 06:00 local time on 20 September, with all detected aircraft crossing the Taiwan Strait median line and entering designated ADIZ sectors.
Taiwan reported that five PLA aircraft, 11 Chinese naval vessels and six official ships operated around Taiwan in the 24 hours ending 06:00 local time on September 20, with all detected aircraft crossing the Taiwan Strait median line into identified ADIZ sectors.
Taiwan reported continued PLA air and naval operations around the island in the 24 hours ending 06:00 local time on September 19, with 13 of 20 aircraft crossing the Taiwan Strait median line and entering sectors of Taiwan’s ADIZ.
Taiwan completed a live-fire exercise in Pingtung on September 18 that, according to its government, integrated multiple attack-drone types with conventional forces in a joint combat exercise for the first time.
Taiwan reported that 20 PLA aircraft, 11 PLAN vessels and three official ships operated around the island in the 24 hours ending 06:00 on September 19, with 13 aircraft crossing the Taiwan Strait median line and entering parts of its air-defense identification zone.
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said 24 of 28 PLA aircraft detected in the 24 hours ending 06:00 local time on September 18 crossed the Taiwan Strait median line and entered parts of Taiwan’s air-defence identification zone, alongside seven naval vessels and two official ships.
Taiwan has conducted its first reported joint exercise integrating attack drones with air-defence, anti-ship and anti-landing missile units, demonstrating force-modernisation and preparedness as U.S.-China leaders are scheduled to meet on September 24.
A US Typhon medium-range missile system remains at Kanoya Air Base in Kyushu for Japan-US exercises, while Japan maintains that withdrawal work will begin around mid-October and Russia presses for its removal.
Taiwan says 24 of 28 PLA aircraft detected around the island in the 24 hours ending 6 a.m. local time on September 18 crossed the Taiwan Strait median line and entered parts of its ADIZ, prompting air, naval and coastal-missile monitoring.
Taiwan reported 19 PLA aircraft sorties, eight naval vessels and two official ships around the island in the 24 hours ending 6 a.m. local time on September 17, with 17 aircraft crossing the Taiwan Strait median line into parts of its ADIZ.
Taiwan reported 19 People’s Liberation Army aircraft around the island in the 24 hours ending 6 a.m. local time on September 17, with 17 crossing the Taiwan Strait median line into designated air-defence identification zones.
Taiwan reported that 12 of 15 People’s Liberation Army aircraft operating around the island crossed the Taiwan Strait median line during the 24 hours ending 6 a.m. on September 16, alongside eight PLA Navy ships and two Chinese official vessels.
Taiwan reported 15 People’s Liberation Army aircraft, eight navy ships and two official Chinese vessels around the island in the 24 hours ending September 16, with 12 aircraft crossing the Taiwan Strait median line and entering multiple air-defence identification zones.
Taiwan reported eight PLA aircraft, seven Chinese naval vessels and two official ships around the island in the 24 hours ending 6 a.m. local time on September 15, with seven aircraft crossing the Taiwan Strait median line and entering parts of its air defence identification zone.
Cambodia and Thailand opened a compulsory but non-binding UNCLOS conciliation process in Singapore on 15 September over overlapping maritime claims in the Gulf of Thailand.
Taiwan reported eight PLA aircraft sorties, seven Chinese naval vessels and two official vessels around the island in the 24 hours ending 6 a.m. local time on September 15, while deploying aircraft, naval vessels and coastal missile systems to monitor and respond.
Thailand and Cambodia opened a UNCLOS conciliation process in Singapore on 15 September after Thailand ended the 2001 bilateral framework for negotiating overlapping continental-shelf claims in the Gulf of Thailand.
