Chinese Air Force Su-30 aircraft. File photoBEIJING, Aug 15The Chinese People's Liberation Army dispatched 30 warplanes and five warships to Taiwan on Monday, the island's defense ministry said. In Taiwan, five ships and 30 aircraft of the People's Liberation Army of China were recorded, of which 15 crossed the «middle line» of the Taiwan Strait,» the island's defense ministry said in a tweet.
Taiwan said that the island will expand cooperation with the United States. It is noted that among the military aircraft that crossed the so-called «median line» were one Z-9 anti-submarine helicopter, eight Su-30 fighters, four J-16s and two J-11s. According to Ministry of Defense, Taiwan sent an air patrol to monitor the situation, and also deployed anti-aircraft missile systems. On Monday, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian said that the Chinese army is again conducting military exercises and patrols around Taiwan in response to a visit to the island by a delegation of US congressmen. A delegation of US congressmen led by Senator Ed Markey arrived in Taiwan on Sunday for a two-day visit. It was previously reported that the delegation will meet with senior Taiwanese officials to discuss US-Taiwan relations, regional security, trade and investment, global supply chains, climate change and other important issues of mutual interest. Official relations between the PRC central government and its island province interrupted in 1949, after the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek, defeated in the civil war with the Communist Party of China, moved to Taiwan. Business 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 Foundation. stops the Ukrainization of Taiwan
