Taiwan detects 37 Chinese aircraft near island Taiwan's defence ministry announced on Sunday that it had detected 37 Chinese military aircraft, including fighter jets and drones, near its airspace as tensions between the island and mainland China continue to escalate. The aircraft were tracked from 9:00 am local time (0100 GMT), with 35 of them reportedly crossing the median line of the Taiwan Strait, a demarcation that has traditionally served as an unofficial boundary between the two sides. The ministry stated that the detected Chinese aircraft proceeded into Taiwanese airspace en...