Taiwan: Beijing sends dozens of military planes around the island. This is the largest deployment this year, in response, to visits by a Taiwanese official to Europe.
The Chinese deployment of this Friday, March 22, even more important than that of the day before, is in line with what experts call “gray zone” actions, intimidation tactics without going as far as war. Tensions with China have also increased since the presidential election of January 13, won by the current vice-president Lai Ching-te.