Taiwan says 21 Chinese warplane incursions as Pelosi visits

More than 20 Chinese military planes flew into Taiwan‍‍`s air defence zone on Tuesday, officials in Taipei said, as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi began her controversial visit to the self-ruled island that Beijing considers its territory.

The island‍‍`s defence ministry said in a statement on Twitter: "21 PLA aircraft ... entered #Taiwan‍‍`s southwest ADIZ on August 2, 2022," referring to the air defence identification zone.

The ADIZ is not the same as Taiwan‍‍`s territorial airspace but includes a far greater area that overlaps with part of China‍‍`s own air defence identification zone and even includes some of the mainland.