Taiwan announces doubling of China's warships – World
Taiwan says China has doubled the number of its warships around the island, nearly doubling the number of ships it has seen in the past few weeks.
Taiwan's Ministry of Defense said that over the past 24 hours, China has almost doubled the number of its warships around the island.
This was reported by Reuters and the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Taiwan.
Taiwan's military said that by 6 a.m. (local time) it had detected 7 Air Force planes and 14 Chinese Navy ships patrolling around the island. The day before, there were eight ships.
The publication's sources note that the weather will be a determining factor in the start of Chinese military exercises. The weather in the Taiwan Strait was bad this weekend.
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