Taiwan scrambles fighter jets as China carrier enters strait

By World Tribune on January 11, 2017   BB NE Asia, China, Exclusives, NE Asia, Taiwan, Top Stories, World Links, World Tribune  

by WorldTribune Staff, January 11, 2017 Taiwan’s military was on placed on high alert as a group of Chinese ships, led by the Liaoning aircraft carrier, transited the Taiwan Strait on Jan. 11. According to Taiwan’s Defense Ministry, Beijing’s Soviet-built aircraft carrier, returning from exercises in the South China Sea, had not entered Taiwan’s territorial […]