PETALING JAYA: Wisma Putra has summoned the Chinese Ambassador to Malaysia Ouyang Yujing for an explanation after 16 Chinese military aircraft were detected near Malaysian airspace on Monday (May 31).
Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said Wisma Putra will also issue a diplomatic note of protest over the incident.
“Based on the report by the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), the ministry will issue a diplomatic note of protest against the intrusion to the Government of the People’s Republic of China.
“The ministry will also summon the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Malaysia to provide an explanation regarding this breach of the Malaysian airspace and sovereignty by the 16 People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) aircraft,” he said in a statement Tuesday (June 1).
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The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Cristina Garafola – senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation and co-author of “70 Years of China’s PLA Air Force” along with Ken Allen
(China Aerospace Institute 2021)
– is the 273rd in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.”
Identify the top three strategic developments of the PLA Air Force in its 70-plus-year history.
While Western air doctrine has emphasized air forces’ speed, independence, and decisive capability during a conflict, in our book we found that People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) development and operations have often been constrained by domestic political, geopolitical, operational, and other factors. The PLA has historically been very ground-centric; developing the PLAAF’s capability “on the founda
F-16V Fighters For Taiwan: Worth the Price Tag?
Continuing to upgrade the air force projects confidence that Taiwan remains the master of its own fate. Islanders will take heart.
Editor s Note: Scholar Dean Cheng the Heritage Foundation has also written for us about this important topic. You can find his essay here.
Here s What You Need to Remember: The U.S.-Taiwan relationship has been awkward since Washington shifted diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in the late 1970s. Since then the United States has maintained a posture of “strategic ambiguity,” arming the islanders while remaining noncommittal about whether it would take a direct hand in fighting a cross-strait war.
2 Chinese war planes enter Taiwan air-defence zone
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24 May 2021, 18:03 GMT+10
Taipei [Taiwan], May 24 (ANI): Taiwan has said that two Chinese military aircraft entered its air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on Sunday, marking the 15th such intrusion this month.
This comes as tensions in the Taiwan Strait are escalating.
According to Taiwan Defence Ministry, a People s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Shaanxi Y-8 electronic warfare plane and Shaanxi Y-8 anti-submarine warfare aircraft flew into the southwest corner of the ADIZ.
In response, Taiwan sent aircraft, broadcast radio warnings, and deployed air defence missile systems to track the two planes.
The new incursion comes after the United States and South Korea agreed to cooperate on the Taiwan Strait issue, amid rising tensions in the 180-km wide waterways.