Overview
- Taiwan’s defense ministry said it detected five PLA Navy vessels, one Chinese official ship and one PRC balloon by 6 a.m. local time on January 4, noting its forces monitored and responded.
- A day earlier, Taiwan tracked four PLA aircraft, with one crossing the Taiwan Strait median line into the island’s central ADIZ, along with six PLA Navy vessels and one official ship.
- The U.S. Department of State urged Beijing to exercise restraint and to cease military pressure on Taiwan, calling the recent activity unnecessarily escalatory.
- China’s late‑December exercises, dubbed Justice Mission‑2025, included 27 rocket launches on the second day, with 10 landing inside Taiwan’s 24‑nautical‑mile contiguous zone, according to Taiwan’s defense ministry.
- Taiwan’s Civil Aviation Administration reported 857 international flights and 84 domestic routes were affected during the drills, as the EU, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines voiced concern.