Taiwanese Oerlikon 35mm anti-aircraft gun. File photoBEJING, Sep 12The Taiwanese armed forces on Monday recorded a drone approaching the Kinmen Islands, controlled by Taipei, the military fired warning flares in its direction, according to the Taiwan Ministry of Defense. entered the airspace in the area of prohibited waters near Caoyu Island (part of the Kinmen Archipelago — ed.),» the official representative of the Kinmen Army Defense Command, Zhang Rongshun, said on the website of the Taiwan defense department. It is reported that the military fired warning flares , after which the drone departed. What the drone looked like and who it belonged to is not specified. In late August, the Taiwanese military for the first time opened fire on Chinese drones that approached the Kinmen Islands. Prior to this, Taiwan's armed forces had limited themselves to warning flares and radio warnings.State Department: Arms Supplies to Taiwan Don't Violate One China Principle At the same time, mainland China considers the islands part of the Quanzhou urban district in Fujian province. The South China Morning Post notes that since the 1950s, not a single mainland Chinese military aircraft, including drones, has flown over the Kinmen Islands, but after the visit to Taiwan of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, the Taiwanese armed forces began to record Chinese drones arriving to the islands. Official relations between the central government of the PRC and its island province were interrupted in 1949, after the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek, defeated in a 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. China sent 19 aircraft and three warships to Taiwan
