Taiwan’s armed forces have ‘right to counter attack,’ military warns after China’s large-scale drills — RT World News

 Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said on Monday that the island’s armed forces have a right to defend themselves and counter attack, citing “harassment and threats” in a warning to Beijing.

The military said that multiple Chinese aircraft flew across the mid-line of the Taiwan Strait and into the island’s air defense identification zone on Friday and Saturday. In response, Taiwan had to scramble jets to intercept, according to the military in Taipei.
The ministry said it had “clearly defined” procedures for the island’s first response amid the “high frequency of harassment and threats from the enemy’s warships and aircraft this year.”
Taiwan has the right to “self-defense and to counter attack,” the military said. It added, however, that the army would follow the guidelines of “no escalation of conflict and no triggering incidents.” The island would not provoke but is also “not afraid of the enemy,” the statement said.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters in Beijing on Monday that “Taiwan is an inseparable part of Chinese territory,” adding that “the so-called mid-line of the strait does not exist.”