Shortly after dawn on a southern Taiwanese beach, Robin Hsu's iPhone pings with the first radio message of the day from Taiwan's air force as it warns away Chinese aircraft.
"Attention!" a voice says on the radio, speaking in Mandarin to a Chinese military plane flying at an altitude of 3,500 meters. "You have entered our southwestern air defence identification zone and are jeopardising aviation safety. Turn around and leave immediately."
The action ebbs and flows. On one day in May, when Reuters accompanied Hsu, nine other warnings were broadcast to Chinese warplanes after the one at dawn. Halfway through lunch, Hsu's iPhone - which is linked to a separate radio antenna - tracked another broadcast, this time in English. A spokesperson for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said that there are routine flights conducted in international airspace in accordance with international law, and that the language in the broadcast is consistent with U.S. military aviation units operating in the Indo-Pacific.
He said making such information public could boost support for Taiwan's armed forces, which are dwarfed by China's. Taiwan's defence ministry said it respects any opinion that helps boost defence, but had no further comment."This is China's People's Liberation Army. I'm conducting routine exercises. Please do not interrupt my activities," one message in Mandarin said in late 2020, minutes after Taiwan warned away a Chinese warplane.
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