China Forces No-Fly Zone Over Taiwan; Know Why?

China has put Taiwan in a no-fly zone near the island. The step was taken after the island complained regarding risks to flight safety, with a negligible chance of doubling back by Beijing as tensions between both sides tickers. 

No-Fly Zone For "Aerospace Activities"

After some time, Beijing told Taipei that the zone will be in position for almost 27 minutes on Sunday morning after Taiwan opposed “a serious influence on aviation management in the area, solemnly eroding the rights and safety of air traffic,” the ministry revealed. 

It referred to the plans of Beijing as “unparallel internationally.” Beijing has not made any official announcement about a no-fly zone as of Thursday morning. 

China's PLA Military Exercises

The incident came in between the newest cross-strait tensions and will be a rarely visible example of agreement between Taipei and Beijing at the time of such periods. 

The PLA just organized three days of military exercises around Taiwan to reveal its displeasure with President Tsai Ing-wen meeting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the United States last week. 

“It is surely not usual that Beijing amended its plans after a complaint from Taiwan,” Wen-ti Sung, an expert on Taiwanese politics and cross-strait relations at Australian National University revealed. 

Sung revealed that the alteration Beijing made may be an indication of coordination issues between various parts of the government. 

“The aviation agency may have referred for a much prolonged no-fly zone period out of technical requirement, but economic and foreign affairs portfolios in due course scaled it back to lessen the zonal push back,” he said.

The military drills that China recently concluded indulged sending warplanes into sensitive regions around Taiwan, adding a record 54 flights over the median line in the undeviating or into Taiwan’s sensitive air-defense recognition zone on Monday. 

Such attacks are intentionally done to frighten the democracy militarily and fag out its much smaller armed forces. 

No-Fly Zone Of China Over Taiwan

He further went on to state that, China may plan to launch a satellite. China has initiated operating satellite launches from platforms just off its coast in the past years. The Asian nation launched five satellites on Long March 11 rockets from a  platform in the East China Sea in April in 2022, state media reported, quoting a rocket designer.