Author: Ethan Connell
Taiwan’s National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu said the PLAN and CCG have deployed more than 100 vessels in the Western Pacific as of Nov. 3, per a map he posted on X.
Two PLAN aircraft carriers are at sea at once: the Liaoning (16) strike group in the Philippine Sea and the Fujian (18) in the South China Sea. The deployment overlaps with a surge in PLA flights, as Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense detected 49 sorties of PLA aircraft in the 24 hours to 6 a.m. Nov. 3, 31 of them entering the ADIZ.