Chinese military slams US warplane’s Taiwan Strait flyover

BEIJING, June 25 — The US despatched a P-8A anti-submarine patrol plane to fly over the Taiwan Strait on June 24 and hyped it up publicly. The air and floor forces of the Japanese Theater Command of the Chinese language Individuals’s Liberation Military (PLA) tracked and monitored the US plane’s passage and remained alert in the entire course, mentioned Senior Colonel Shi Yi, spokesperson for the PLA Japanese Theater Command, in a written assertion launched on Saturday.

Such provocative transfer by the US facet jeopardizes regional state of affairs and harms the peace and stability throughout the Taiwan Strait, the Chinese language facet is adamantly against that. The troops of the PLA Japanese Theater Command maintain excessive vigilance always to resolutely safeguard nationwide sovereignty and territorial integrity, mentioned the assertion.