China Flies Fighter Jets And A Combat Drone Around Taiwan

A Sichuan Tengden's TB-001, nicknamed "Twin-Tailed Scorpion" for the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) flies at the 13th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai in southern China's Guangdong province on September 28, 2021. © Noel Celis, AFP 

France 24: China flies 38 aircraft, including a combat drone, near Taiwan 

A long-range Chinese combat drone capable of carrying a large weapons payload has circled Taiwan, the island's defence ministry said Friday. 

Democratic Taiwan lives under constant threat of an attack by Beijing, which views the island as part of its territory. 

Taiwan's defence ministry said it detected 38 Chinese aircraft, including a TB-001 drone nicknamed the "twin-tailed scorpion", around the island between 6 am (1000 GMT) Thursday and 6 am Friday.

The drone's circling flight path saw it cross the median line -- an unofficial boundary dividing the Taiwan Strait -- to the island's south before flying around its east coast and returning to China, a map released by the ministry showed.  

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WNU Editor: The US is also in the area .... U.S. Navy P-8 Flies Over Taiwan Strait, Causing China to Scramble (USNI News). More here .... US P-8A sub-hunter flies over Taiwan Strait, France confirms naval transit (Taiwan News). 

China Flies Fighter Jets And A Combat Drone Around Taiwan  

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Chinese Warships and Planes Test Taiwan Defenses -- WSJ  

China Flies Fighter Jets Around Taiwan -- VOA  

Chinese TB-001 drone flies around Taiwan in rare encirclement, says island’s military -- The Guardian  

Taiwan detects PLA combat drones circling island ‘for the first time’ -- SCMP 

China combat drone circles Taiwan, US aircraft transits area -- DW 

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