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Taiwan warns of China military’s ‘sudden entry’ close to island

By Reuters
March 6, 2023

TAIPEI – Taiwan Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng warned on Monday the island has to be on alert this year for a “sudden entry” by the Chinese military into areas close to its territory amid rising military tensions across the Taiwan Strait.

China has stepped up its military activities around Taiwan in recent years, including almost daily air force incursions into the island’s air defense identification zone.

However, Taiwan has not reported any incident of Chinese forces entering its contiguous zone, which is 24 nautical miles from its coast. But it has shot down a civilian drone that entered its airspace near an islet off the Chinese coast last year.

Answering questions from lawmakers in parliament, Chiu said the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) might find excuses to enter areas close to Taiwan’s territorial air and sea space as the island steps up its military exchanges with the United States, to Beijing’s ire.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/03/06/taiwan-warns-of-china-militarys-sudden-entry-close-to-island/

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Re: Taiwan warns of China military’s ‘sudden entry’ close to island
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2023, 02:49:20 pm »
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China outpacing U.S. in hypersonic missiles, Defense Intelligence Agency warns
Pentagon plays catch-up with rivals in ultra-fast strike weapons
 By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Friday, March 10, 2023

China’s military is deploying ultra-high-speed missiles at a rate that poses an increasing threat of nuclear and conventional attacks on the United States, a senior Defense Intelligence Agency official told Congress on Friday.

Paul F. Freisthler, chief scientist at DIA, testified that Beijing has aggressively developed and fielded several types of hypersonic missiles, including gliders and “scramjet”-powered cruise missiles that maneuver to targets at more than five times the speed of sound to avoid detection.

The Pentagon is pushing to catch up, but the U.S. homeland is vulnerable to a sudden attack from the missiles that can strike with little or no warning. Hypersonic missiles can shorten the time of a long-range attack over several thousand miles from 30 minutes to 15 minutes, according to testimony during a House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee hearing on the subject. ...
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/10/china-out-pacing-us-hypersonic-missiles-defense-in/
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