Overview
- Taiwan’s defense ministry said nine PLA aircraft and seven PLAN vessels were detected around the island by 6 a.m. local time, in an update posted on X.
- Four of the aircraft crossed the Taiwan Strait median line into the northern and southwestern sectors of Taiwan’s ADIZ.
- The ministry stated it monitored the activity and responded.
- Friday’s report recorded 33 PLA sorties with 23 crossing the median line into multiple ADIZ sectors, indicating a day-to-day fluctuation in tempo.
- The US Congressional-Executive Commission on China released its annual report criticizing intensifying repression in China and spotlighting the detention of Taiwanese activist Yang Chih-yuan.