‘Hybrid warfare’: Taiwan drives away 16 Chinese ships
- China is ramping up its presence around Taiwan, in a pattern that Taipei said is designed to ‘alter the status quo’.
- Taiwan has confronted and driven away 16 Chinese coastguard, research and fishing vessels that it said were involved in simultaneous “maritime harassment” operations.
- An “unusually large” number of Chinese vessels took part in coordinated operations around Taiwan’s main island and Pratas (also known as Dongsha), a disputed island to the southwest, the Taiwanese coastguard said in a statement on Sunday.
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- China is ramping up its presence around Taiwan, in a pattern that Taipei said is designed to ‘alter the status quo’.
- Taiwan has confronted and driven away 16 Chinese coastguard, research and fishing vessels that it said were involved in simultaneous “maritime harassment” operations.
- An “unusually large” number of Chinese vessels took part in coordinated operations around Taiwan’s main island and Pratas (also known as Dongsha), a disputed island to the southwest, the Taiwanese coastguard said in a statement on Sunday.
Sources: Al Jazeera