SINGAPORE/TAIPEI - With increased regularity since late last year, Chinese fighter jets and bombers have roared into Taiwan's air defence identification zone, with the largest-ever group of 25 aircraft doing so last week.
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) this month also held a military exercise involving its aircraft carrier Liaoning in the Taiwan Strait, the narrow strip of water - only 160km at its widest - that separates Taiwan from mainland China.
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