China’s large-scale aerial maneuvers in skies near Taiwan on Monday, covered with misleading headlines and alarmist reports in global media, have sent shockwaves of alarm rippling across the region and beyond.
The alarm, however, is largely unmerited – and indeed, there is no panic being reported among the Taiwanese public.
Contrary to scare-mongering in English language media – “Brazen China Steadily Ramps Up Warplane Flights in Taiwan’s Airspace” US News and World Report stormed – the Chinese aircraft did not breach Taiwan’s sovereign air space, much less overfly Taiwan.
In fact, they did not even cross the…