Tensions between China and Taiwan are growing: 5 Chinese ships enter "forbidden" waters off Kinmen Island
Kyiv • UNN
Five Chinese coast guard ships entered the restricted waters around Taiwan's Kinmen Islands, increasing tensions between China and Taiwan.
The Taiwanese government says it has detected several Chinese surveillance and coast guard ships around its Kinmen archipelago. The incident may be related to the deaths of two Chinese fishermen off Kinmen in the middle, which may have worsened relations between China and Taiwan.
This was reported by UNN with reference to Spiegel and Volkskrant.
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Five Chinese Coast Guard ships entered the prohibited or restricted waters around Taiwan's cross-Strait Kinmen Islands on Monday. The Chinese coast guard has begun regular patrols around the Taiwanese-controlled Kinmen Islands after two Chinese citizens whose boat entered the restricted waters died trying to escape from the Taiwanese coast guard.
The coast guard responded appropriately and used the radio to ask the Chinese vessels to move away
Kinmen, with more than 140,000 inhabitants, is located just a few kilometers from the Chinese city of Xiamen in the southeast of the People's Republic. Although it has never ruled Taiwan, the ruling Communist Party in Beijing considers the island republic to be part of China. As a result, tensions are constantly rife in the strait between the two countries.
Last week, Taiwan's Ministry of Defense said it was not reinforcing its forces on the islands close to China, which include the Matsu archipelago and Kinmen. Taiwan's Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng expressed hope that what is happening around Kinmen will not lead to an escalation and will be "smoothly resolved.
We don't want to see hostilities break out
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