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Chinese military aircraft make 21 flights around Taiwan - Operativ Məlumat Mərkəzi
Why it matters
PLA air operations at this tempo and scale directly test Taiwan's air-defence capacity and signal Beijing's willingness to sustain military pressure. Australia's dependence on US commitment to Taiwan and freedom of navigation in the Indo-Pacific means escalating PLA activity around Taiwan increases the risk of US entanglement in a Taiwan crisis, which would pull Australia into a major-power conflict and disrupt its sea lanes, trade, and alliance cohesion.
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