68 China jets, 13 warships cross median line: Taiwan defence ministry

Beijing cancels US defence talks, slaps sanctions on Pelosi for Taiwan visit

Taipei’s military said 68 Chinese fighter jets and 13 warships crossed the “median line” that runs down the Taiwan Strait during Friday's military drills by China’s forces.

China on Friday continued its most provocative military drills in decades and cut off defence talks with the US, as relations between the world’s biggest economies deteriorate in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan.

A day after likely firing missiles over the island of 23 million people, China sent warships across the Taiwan Strait’s median line in the first such incursion in years. The People’s Liberation Army also sent warplanes across