https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-says-chinese-air-force-got-within-24-miles-its-coast-2023-06-24/

TAIPEI, June 24 (Reuters) - Eight Chinese war planes crossed the Taiwan Strait's median line and approached close to the island's contiguous zone that is 24 nautical miles (44 km) off its coast on Saturday, the Taiwanese defence ministry said, in a further rise in tensions.

China's air force over the past three years has routinely flown into the air space around Taiwan. Since August it has regularly sent jets across the strait's median line, which had previously served as an unofficial barrier.

Beijing claims democratically governed Taiwan as China's territory. Taiwan's government rejects the claims and says only the island's people can decide their future.

https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202306/24/WS6496375fa310bf8a75d6b509.html

China Coast Guard (CCG) tracked and "fully monitored" a US Coast Guard vessel that sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the CCG spokesperson Gan Yu said in a statement Thursday, calling the US move a public hype and vowing to "resolutely protect China's national sovereignty, security and maritime rights and interests".

The passage of the US Coast Guard cutter through the Taiwan Strait came just a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ended a two-day visit to Beijing, which once again exposes US' duplicitous practice of double-dealing toward China, casting doubt on US' sincerity in easing tensions and avoiding further deterioration of bilateral relations.

Instead of taking concrete steps to remove the obstacles in the path of a sound China-US relationship, Washington has been bent on stirring up tensions across the Taiwan Strait, which has been draining mutual trust and turning the region into a dangerous flashpoint.

https://news.usni.org/2023/06/23/south-korean-public-growing-uneasy-with-north-korean-nuclear-threat-u-s-role-in-protection-officials-say

Some South Koreans are questioning how well the U.S. would defend Seoul against a nuclear attack, two members of its National Assembly said Thursday.

The “Korean public is less confident about the alliance” now as Pyongyang continues to test cruise and ballistic missiles and China rapidly increases its nuclear arsenal, said Jae-jung Lee, chair of a key technology committee in the National Assembly, speaking at the Woodrow Wilson Center Thursday.

The rising support from 60 to 70 percent of the population “to self-protect ourselves” is surprisingly coming from Koreans who don’t believe Seoul is behind Pyongyang in military capabilities, as well as from those who feel it is increasingly vulnerable to attack, she said.

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