Taiwan S Downing Of A Drone Near China Was Appropriate The Prime Minister Said

Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up TAIPEI, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s downing of a drone off the Chinese coast buzzing a Taiwanese-controlled island was the most “appropriate” thing to do after repeated warnings and China should exercise restraint, said Taiwan’s Prime Minister Su Tseng-chang. he said on Friday. For the first time, Taiwan’s military shot down an unidentified unmanned drone that entered its airspace near an islet near the Chinese city of Xiamen on Thursday, after the government vowed to crack down on a surge in incursions. read more China responded that Taiwan was trying to “inflame tensions” over the incident, which follows the island’s complaints of harassment over Chinese drones flying near the Kinmen Islands as Beijing holds military exercises around Taiwan. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up Su told reporters that Taiwan had repeatedly issued warnings and asked China “not to step on our doorstep”. He added, “They repeatedly ignored our warnings to leave and we had no choice but to exercise self-defense and shoot. This is the most appropriate response after repeated restraints and warnings.” China must show restraint, Su said. “We will never provoke and will do whatever is most appropriate to protect our land and people.” In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the “attempt by Taiwan’s ruling party to escalate tensions means nothing.” Taiwanese media quoted China’s Taiwan Affairs Office as saying in response to the downing of the drone that it was “extremely ridiculous” that Taiwan was trying to “stir up a confrontation”. The drone was shot down after entering restricted airspace near the tiny Lion Islet and crashed into the sea, according to Taiwan’s military. The Kinmen Defense Command said on Friday its forces spotted two more drones that “quickly” flew back to Xiamen after troops fired flares to warn them to leave. Chinese forces have been exercising near Taiwan since early last month, after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei angered Beijing. China sees democratically-ruled Taiwan as its own territory, despite strong objections from the government in Taipei. At least two videos of recent drone visits have been widely circulated on Chinese social media, one of which showed Taiwanese soldiers throwing rocks at the vessel. Su said these videos were made for China’s “propaganda at home”, adding to the anger of the Taiwanese people. Taiwan fired warning shots at a drone for the first time on Tuesday, shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen said she had ordered the military to take “strong countermeasures” against what she called Chinese provocations. read more Tsai has championed the idea of ​​”asymmetric warfare,” to make his forces more mobile and harder to attack, and speaking via video link at a forum in Prague on Friday, Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said that remains the focus. . “To safeguard our security and sovereignty, Taiwan will continue to develop its asymmetric capability to make cross-strait invasion very difficult and costly,” he said. Taiwan has controlled Kinmen, which at its closest point is a few hundred meters (feet) from Chinese territory, since the defeated ROC government took refuge in Taipei after losing a civil war to Mao Zedong’s communists in 1949. During the Cold War, China regularly bombed Kinmen and other Taiwanese-controlled islands along the Chinese coast, and while they maintain a significant military presence, they are now tourist destinations as well. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up Reporting by Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard. Additional reporting by Eduardo Baptista in Beijing and Robert Muller in Prague. Edited by Raju Gopalakrishnan, Clarence Fernandez and Simon Cameron-Moore Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up TAIPEI, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s downing of a drone off the Chinese coast buzzing a Taiwanese-controlled island was the most “appropriate” thing to do after repeated warnings and China should exercise restraint, said Taiwan’s Prime Minister Su Tseng-chang. he said on Friday. For the first time, Taiwan’s military shot down an unidentified unmanned drone that entered its airspace near an islet near the Chinese city of Xiamen on Thursday, after the government vowed to crack down on a surge in incursions. read more China responded that Taiwan was trying to “inflame tensions” over the incident, which follows the island’s complaints of harassment over Chinese drones flying near the Kinmen Islands as Beijing holds military exercises around Taiwan. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up Su told reporters that Taiwan had repeatedly issued warnings and asked China “not to step on our doorstep”. He added, “They repeatedly ignored our warnings to leave and we had no choice but to exercise self-defense and shoot. This is the most appropriate response after repeated restraints and warnings.” China must show restraint, Su said. “We will never provoke and will do whatever is most appropriate to protect our land and people.” In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the “attempt by Taiwan’s ruling party to escalate tensions means nothing.” Taiwanese media quoted China’s Taiwan Affairs Office as saying in response to the downing of the drone that it was “extremely ridiculous” that Taiwan was trying to “stir up a confrontation”. The drone was shot down after entering restricted airspace near the tiny Lion Islet and crashed into the sea, according to Taiwan’s military. The Kinmen Defense Command said on Friday its forces spotted two more drones that “quickly” flew back to Xiamen after troops fired flares to warn them to leave. Chinese forces have been exercising near Taiwan since early last month, after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei angered Beijing. China sees democratically-ruled Taiwan as its own territory, despite strong objections from the government in Taipei. At least two videos of recent drone visits have been widely circulated on Chinese social media, one of which showed Taiwanese soldiers throwing rocks at the vessel. Su said these videos were made for China’s “propaganda at home”, adding to the anger of the Taiwanese people. Taiwan fired warning shots at a drone for the first time on Tuesday, shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen said she had ordered the military to take “strong countermeasures” against what she called Chinese provocations. read more Tsai has championed the idea of ​​”asymmetric warfare,” to make his forces more mobile and harder to attack, and speaking via video link at a forum in Prague on Friday, Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said that remains the focus. . “To safeguard our security and sovereignty, Taiwan will continue to develop its asymmetric capability to make cross-strait invasion very difficult and costly,” he said. Taiwan has controlled Kinmen, which at its closest point is a few hundred meters (feet) from Chinese territory, since the defeated ROC government took refuge in Taipei after losing a civil war to Mao Zedong’s communists in 1949. During the Cold War, China regularly bombed Kinmen and other Taiwanese-controlled islands along the Chinese coast, and while they maintain a significant military presence, they are now tourist destinations as well. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up Reporting by Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard. Additional reporting by Eduardo Baptista in Beijing and Robert Muller in Prague. Edited by Raju Gopalakrishnan, Clarence Fernandez and Simon Cameron-Moore Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up TAIPEI, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s downing of a drone off the Chinese coast buzzing a Taiwanese-controlled island was the most “appropriate” thing to do after repeated warnings and China should exercise restraint, said Taiwan’s Prime Minister Su Tseng-chang. he said on Friday. For the first time, Taiwan’s military shot down an unidentified unmanned drone that entered its airspace near an islet near the Chinese city of Xiamen on Thursday, after the government vowed to crack down on a surge in incursions. read more China responded that Taiwan was trying to “inflame tensions” over the incident, which follows the island’s complaints of harassment over Chinese drones flying near the Kinmen Islands as Beijing holds military exercises around Taiwan. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up Su told reporters that Taiwan had repeatedly issued warnings and asked China “not to step on our doorstep”. He added, “They repeatedly ignored our warnings to leave and we had no choice but to exercise self-defense and shoot. This is the most appropriate response after repeated restraints and warnings.” China must show restraint, Su said. “We will never provoke and will do whatever is most appropriate to protect our land and people.” In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the “attempt by Taiwan’s ruling party to escalate tensions means nothing.” Taiwanese media quoted China’s Taiwan Affairs Office as saying in response to the downing of the drone that it was “extremely ridiculous” that Taiwan was trying to “stir up a confrontation”. The drone was shot down after entering restricted airspace near the tiny Lion Islet and crashed into the sea, according to Taiwan’s military. The Kinmen Defense Command said on Friday its forces spotted two more drones that “quickly” flew back to Xiamen after troops fired flares to warn them to leave. Chinese forces have been exercising near Taiwan since early last month, after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei angered Beijing. China sees democratically-ruled Taiwan as its own territory, despite strong objections from the government in Taipei. At least two videos of recent drone visits have been widely circulated on Chinese social media, one of which showed Taiwanese soldiers throwing rocks at the vessel. Su said these videos were made for China’s “propaganda at home”, adding to the anger of the Taiwanese people. Taiwan fired warning shots at a drone for the first time on Tuesday, shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen said she had ordered the military to take “strong countermeasures” against what she called Chinese provocations. read more Tsai has championed the idea of ​​”asymmetric warfare,” to make his forces more mobile and harder to attack, and speaking via video link at a forum in Prague on Friday, Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said that remains the focus. . “To safeguard our security and sovereignty, Taiwan will continue to develop its asymmetric capability to make cross-strait invasion very difficult and costly,” he said. Taiwan has controlled Kinmen, which at its closest point is a few hundred meters (feet) from Chinese territory, since the defeated ROC government took refuge in Taipei after losing a civil war to Mao Zedong’s communists in 1949. During the Cold War, China regularly bombed Kinmen and other Taiwanese-controlled islands along the Chinese coast, and while they maintain a significant military presence, they are now tourist destinations as well. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up Reporting by Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard. Additional reporting by Eduardo Baptista in Beijing and Robert Muller in Prague. Edited by Raju Gopalakrishnan, Clarence Fernandez and Simon Cameron-Moore Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up TAIPEI, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s downing of a drone off the Chinese coast buzzing a Taiwanese-controlled island was the most “appropriate” thing to do after repeated warnings and China should exercise restraint, said Taiwan’s Prime Minister Su Tseng-chang. he said on Friday. For the first time, Taiwan’s military shot down an unidentified unmanned drone that entered its airspace near an islet near the Chinese city of Xiamen on Thursday, after the government vowed to crack down on a surge in incursions. read more China responded that Taiwan was trying to “inflame tensions” over the incident, which follows the island’s complaints of harassment over Chinese drones flying near the Kinmen Islands as Beijing holds military exercises around Taiwan. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up Su told reporters that Taiwan had repeatedly issued warnings and asked China “not to step on our doorstep”. He added, “They repeatedly ignored our warnings to leave and we had no choice but to exercise self-defense and shoot. This is the most appropriate response after repeated restraints and warnings.” China must show restraint, Su said. “We will never provoke and will do whatever is most appropriate to protect our land and people.” In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the “attempt by Taiwan’s ruling party to escalate tensions means nothing.” Taiwanese media quoted China’s Taiwan Affairs Office as saying in response to the downing of the drone that it was “extremely ridiculous” that Taiwan was trying to “stir up a confrontation”. The drone was shot down after entering restricted airspace near the tiny Lion Islet and crashed into the sea, according to Taiwan’s military. The Kinmen Defense Command said on Friday its forces spotted two more drones that “quickly” flew back to Xiamen after troops fired flares to warn them to leave. Chinese forces have been exercising near Taiwan since early last month, after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei angered Beijing. China sees democratically-ruled Taiwan as its own territory, despite strong objections from the government in Taipei. At least two videos of recent drone visits have been widely circulated on Chinese social media, one of which showed Taiwanese soldiers throwing rocks at the vessel. Su said these videos were made for China’s “propaganda at home”, adding to the anger of the Taiwanese people. Taiwan fired warning shots at a drone for the first time on Tuesday, shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen said she had ordered the military to take “strong countermeasures” against what she called Chinese provocations. read more Tsai has championed the idea of ​​”asymmetric warfare,” to make his forces more mobile and harder to attack, and speaking via video link at a forum in Prague on Friday, Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said that remains the focus. . “To safeguard our security and sovereignty, Taiwan will continue to develop its asymmetric capability to make cross-strait invasion very difficult and costly,” he said. Taiwan has controlled Kinmen, which at its closest point is a few hundred meters (feet) from Chinese territory, since the defeated ROC government took refuge in Taipei after losing a civil war to Mao Zedong’s communists in 1949. During the Cold War, China regularly bombed Kinmen and other Taiwanese-controlled islands along the Chinese coast, and while they maintain a significant military presence, they are now tourist destinations as well. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up Reporting by Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard. Additional reporting by Eduardo Baptista in Beijing and Robert Muller in Prague. Edited by Raju Gopalakrishnan, Clarence Fernandez and Simon Cameron-Moore Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.