TAIPEI (AFP) – Chinese jets made a record 380 incursions into Taiwan’s defence zone last year, a defence official said Tuesday (Jan 5) , as a military-linked think-tank warned tensions were now at their highest since the mid-1990s.

Democratic and self-ruled Taiwan lives under the constant threat of invasion by authoritarian China, which views the island as its own territory and has vowed to seize it one day, by force if necessary.…

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