"Escalation" in Taiwan, the Chinese army crosses the median line of the strait

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According to Taipei, a total of 68 aircraft and 13 Chinese warships had crossed the "median line" of the Taiwan Strait, which separates the island from the mainland, since the start of the day.

An unofficial border between Taiwan and mainland China, the median line was once tacitly respected by both armies and it was rare for Chinese military planes or ships to cross it.

But Chinese incursions have multiplied since Beijing declared, in 2020, that this unofficial border no longer existed.

sentence of the day

We did not expect our malevolent neighbor to flaunt his might on our doorstep, and arbitrarily endanger the world's busiest waterways with his military exercises."

Taiwanese Prime Minister Su Tseng-chang raised his voice on Friday.

For its part, Washington called on Beijing to "reduce tensions by ceasing their military exercises".

In theory, these are supposed to end on Sunday at midday.

The controversy of the day

The exit of Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the “provocation” of the United States in Taiwan caused a series of criticisms on the left, opening a breach within the New popular union born on the occasion of the legislative elections.

The leader of La France insoumise also affirmed that "there is only one China" and that "Taiwan is a full-fledged component of China", which earned him to be thanked by the Chinese Embassy in France.

Friday, on BFMTV, Julien Bayou, national secretary of Europe Écologie-Les Verts (EELV), an allied party of LFI within the Nupes, denounced "a rather dated vision" and "a real cynicism in terms of geopolitics" of from Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

The trend of the day

Relations between Beijing and Washington are deteriorating.

Beijing will "suspend China-US climate change talks" and cancel a talk between military leaders as well as two security meetings, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said days after the visit of the chief US lawmaker, Nancy Pelosi, in Taiwan.

He criticized the latter for having treated China's opposition to his visit with "contempt".

The suspension of the dialogue on climate change is “fundamentally irresponsible”, reacted the spokesman of the American executive for national security affairs, John Kirby.

“China is not just punishing the United States, it is punishing the whole world,” he added.

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