Of particular concern is the revelation that 9 of the aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, breaching Taiwan's Southwestern Air Defense Identification Zone (SW ADIZ) and entering its airspace.
Newly-appointed Chinese Ambassador to India, Xu Feihong on Friday said that India and China boast of being time-honoured civilizations and are each other's important neighbours.
The Philippines' national security adviser on Friday called for the expulsion of Chinese diplomats over an alleged leaked telephonic conversation with a Filipino military official as territorial tensions continue to surge, reported Nikkei Asia.
Xu expressed gratitude to the Ministry of External Affairs official, Eritrea's Ambassador to India Alem Tsehaye Woldemariam and officials from the Chinese Embassy for welcoming him upon arrival in Delhi.
According to Taiwan's MND, four of the 7 Chinese military aircraft crossed the median line and entered Taiwan's southwestern and eastern Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ).
Pitroda, in an interview with 'The Statesman', said, "We have survived 75 years in a very happy environment where people could live together, leaving aside a few fights here and there. We could hold a country together as diverse as India, where people in the East look like Chinese, people
Emphasising that "peace and security" of the Indian Ocean is important for countries in the neighbourhood including India, Maldivian Foreign Minister Moosa Zameer on Thursday said that his government has "not permitted the Chinese vessel" for research purposes in the Maldivian waters.
Taiwan Ministry of National Defence (MND) said on Thursday that it tracked 23 Chinese military aircraft and five naval vessels around Taiwan between 6 am on Wednesday and 6 am on Thursday, Taiwan News reported.
Sam Pitroda, whose remarks "people of the east look like the Chinese and those of the south look like Africans" caused a major political furore in election season and embarrassed the Congress, resigned as Chairman of Indian Overseas Congress on Wednesday.
In a joint operation, troops of the Border Security Force (BSF) and Punjab police recovered a China-made drone along with 210 grams of heroin from a village in Tarn Taran district on Tuesday.