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Chinese Aircraft Fly Through Disputed Bashi Channel

January 23 2019

China

Chinese military aircraft have have again conducted a flight near Taiwanese airspace, reports the South China Morning Post

An Su-30 fighter jet, Y-8 transport aircraft and other planes flew through the Bashi Channel, a disputed waterway north of the Philippines, the Taiwanese Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. 

The aircraft took off from southern China and flew through to the western Pacific before returning to their base, said the ministry.

Taiwan scrambled aircraft and...

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