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... In other developments, Chinese aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles have been transiting the Miyako Strait to enter the Philippine Sea and operate east and south of Okinawa this week, according to Japan Joint Staff Office releases.

The MND detected 32 sorties comprising of J-11 fighters, KJ-500 airborne early warning and control aircraft along with other types of main and auxiliary fighter aircraft and UAVs, with 22 sorties crossing the median line of the Taiwan Strait, according to a Wednesday MND statement. The aircraft joined with the People's Liberation Army Navy ships for a joint combat readiness patrol.'

"During this period, it blatantly violated international practice and set up an exercise area without warning in the waters about 40 nautical miles off the coast of Kaohsiung and Pingtung, claiming that it would conduct shooting training'," reads the MND release.

"This move not only poses a high risk to the navigation safety of international flights and ships at sea but is also a blatant provocation to regional security and stability."

The MND added that China's recent live fire drills off Vietnam and Australia and military deterrence against the Philippines, "are sufficient to prove that China is the only and biggest threat to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and the Indo-Pacific region.". ...