China simulates strikes on Taiwan from aircraft carriers as drills enter third day

Ship-launched J-15 fighter jets have previously never been seen inside the democratically ruled island’s air defence zone

China’s military is practising ship-launched strikes on Taiwan from the east, information released by Taiwan’s defence ministry on Monday indicated, as Beijing’s retaliatory military drills entered their third day.

The defence ministry did not give the positions of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) ships it had detected, but a map of PLA aircraft detections show four J-15 fighter jets east of Taiwan, in the western Pacific, on Saturday.