Taiwan Says Tracking Chinese Carrier Off Its Southeast Coast

Taiwan Says Tracking Chinese Carrier Off Its Southeast Coast
A jet fighter takes off from China's Shandong aircraft carrier, south of Okinawa prefecture, Japan, on April 10, 2023. Joint Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan/Handout via Reuters
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TAIPEI—Taiwan’s defense ministry said on Monday that a Chinese carrier group led by the Shandong was about 120 nautical miles off the southeast of the island’s coast, the same ship that took part in China’s war games around the island earlier this month.

Taiwan previously reported that the Shandong, commissioned in 2019, had sailed into waters in the Western Pacific through the Bashi Channel that separates the island from the Philippines ahead of a meeting between President Tsai Ing-wen and U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in Los Angeles.