especially after some very high profile visits by western officials, including nancy pelosi of the united states. also uk lawmakers, japanese lawmakers visiting taiwan, sparking very angry reaction from beijing. then on sunday, christmas day, we saw this intrusion into taiwan s air defence force, so we re talking about fighter jets and drones. beijing calls it a strike drill and they this was in response to what it calls provocations by taiwan and the united states. but the office of tsai ing wen, president of taiwan said that she will be holding a high level meeting tomorrow to reinforce its civil defence system. south korea says it has scrambled
nancy pelosi of the united states. also uk lawmakers, japanese lawmakers visiting taiwan, sparking very angry reaction from beijing. 0n very angry reaction from beijing. on sunday, christmas day, we saw this intrusion into taiwan s air defence force, so we re talking about fighterjets and drones. beijing calls it a strike drill and they this was a response in response to provocations by taiwan and the united states. the office of taiwan is that you will be holding a high level meeting tomorrow to reinforce its civil defence system. how are people in taiwan feeling about this? about this? despite this early mornin: about this? despite this early morning report about this? despite this early morning report on about this? despite this early morning report on monday i about this? despite this early - morning report on monday morning by taiwan s defence ministry, it has been reported there is no major alarm because tensions have been
beijing calls it a strike drill and they say this was in response to what it calls provocations by taiwan and the united states. but the office of tsai ing wen, president of taiwan said that she will be holding a high level meeting tomorrow to reinforce its civil defence system. south korea says it has scrambled fighterjets and attack helicopters to try to shoot down several unmanned drones flown into its airspace by north korea. around 100 rounds were fired from helicopters, but this failed to bring any of them down. one of the north s drones was reported to have flown close to the south s capital, seoul, prompting the temporary closure of two major airports. lee seung o is an official from south korea sjoint chiefs of staff he earlier held a briefing: 0ur military deployed manned and unmanned reconnaissance
beijing calls it a strike drill and they say this was in response to what it calls provocations by taiwan and the united states. but the office of tsai ing wen, president of taiwan said that she will be holding a high level meeting tomorrow to reinforce its civil defence system. how are people in taiwan feeling about this? despite this early morning report on monday morning by taiwan s defence ministry, it has been reported there is no major alarm because tensions have been quite tense but still the fact this happened on christmas day, this is definitely worrying and this follows on friday, china conducting military drills nearjapan and japan has recently increased its defence spending. joe biden hasjust signed a new defence bill to establish a defence and modernisation programme for taiwan so well
the taiwanese defence ministry says it has detected 71 chinese aircraft, the majority of them fighter jets, and seven chinese warships around the island. it added that 43 chinese airforce planes had crossed the median line of the taiwan strait marking the de facto border between the island and the chinese mainland in a 2k hour period. earlier we heard from our correspondent mariko oi in singapore who gave us the latest. tensions between taiwan and beijing have been quite tense and have been escalating this year, especially after some very high profile visits by western officials, including nancy pelosi of the united states. also uk lawmakers, japanese lawmakers visiting taiwan, sparking very angry reaction from beijing. then on sunday, christmas day, we saw this intrusion into taiwan s air defence force, so we re talking about fighter jets and drones. beijing calls it a strike drill and they this was in response to what it calls provocations by taiwan and the united states.