Taiwan's Defense Ministry said 29 military aircraft entered the air defense zone

The Chinese Ministry of Defense has promised to fight for Taiwan at any cost. According to the information received, Taiwan sent an air patrol to monitor the situation and deployed anti-aircraft missile systems. The PRC regularly conducts exercises and patrols in the Taiwan Strait amid aggravated relations with the United States, including due to the Taiwan issue . The Chinese Foreign Ministry has repeatedly called him the most sensitive in relations between Washington and Beijing. Earlier, Taiwan Defense Minister Qiu Guozheng said that in the event of a clash with China, no matter who wins, it will end in tragedy for both sides. According to him, «no one wants war.» Official relations between the central government of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan broke off in 1949 after the defeated Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek moved to the island in 1949. US ready for small nuclear war over TaiwanBusiness and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties began to contact through non-governmental organizations — the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Cross-Strait Exchange Fund. Beijing does not recognize the sovereignty of Taiwan and is jealous of contacts with other countries, insisting on the «one China policy.» It implies that the island is an integral part of Chinese territory, and the PRC authorities are the only legitimate government.