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[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 183 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ten Chinese air force aircraft entered Taiwan's air defence zone . . . Of those aircraft, the ministry said 10 had either crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, which previously served as an unofficial barrier between the two sides, or entered the southwestern part of Taiwan's air defence identification zone, or ADIZ.

For those unfamiliar with the Air Defense Identification Zone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Defense_Identification_Zone_(Taiwan)

Not only does it include a lot of water that isn't part of the Strait, right off of China's coast, it also includes a portion of Mainland China a few times larger than Taiwan itself.

People like to talk like China is flying jets over Taipei City, but you can fly a plane from one city in Mainland China to another, only passing over land, and be in this zone. Mind you, I don't think Taiwan having this zone is bad -- countries generally should be aware of air traffic nearby -- but this is part of a long history of alarmist headlines by western media regarding what is often very uninteresting air traffic in the PRC.

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[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 118 points 1 year ago

okay guys , so since this hole federation stuff your Pro Imperial Wrong Takes comes my way , it must be corrected ..

this is Taiwans Air Identification Zone it is a Bullshit leftover that spans so vast over china that it simply can not be not violated ,.. theirby producing the most wonderfull "Permanent - Saturaton - Propaganda" of China Bad Bakround noise for the Imperial core audience in their Echo Chambers .

PS: this is where real Journalist go in the west , when they start beeing critical of non approved subjects.

"Good thing propaganda only ever happens to other people"

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 110 points 1 year ago

Is this that stupid shit where their air defense zone covers a huge chunk of mainland China and they freak out every time China flies Chinese planes over China?

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[-] Fuckass@hexbear.net 103 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 95 points 1 year ago

How can China violate its own airspace? thinky-felix

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[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 77 points 1 year ago

My dude calls people statists but then also cites death tolls spouted by the US State department on Mao's casualties is a level of mental gymnastics that may finally dethrone the Maga morons.

I'm sure there's some explanation for how Mao killed 100,000,000 people but somehow the population of China went up and the life expectancy doubled under him. It can't be because the US stat dept. exaggerated the deaths by an exponent tho.

这个老外真过瘾,哈哈

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[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago

So it begins. The great Redditification of our time

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