Taiwan describes scale of Beijing’s ‘strike drills’

"China has launched large-scale naval and aerial maneuvers around Taiwan, involving
dozens of aircraft, days after Washington’s pledge to provide additional military aid to Taipei.

A total of 71 jet fighters, anti-submarine planes, electronic warfare aircraft and reconnaissance drones, together with seven naval ships, have been spotted close to Taiwan in the last 24 hours, the self-governing island’s Defense Ministry said.

Taipei scrambled its own jets and Navy vessels, and also used land-based missile batteries, to monitor the movement of Beijing’s forces." RT