White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday during a press briefing that the US reiterates its stance of opposing any unilateral attempts to change the status quo of the Taiwan Strait by force or coercion.
Taiwan urges global democracies to condemn China's recent military drills around the island, calling Beijing a "major troublemaker" after recent military exercises.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated that both the United States and Japan share a "warrior ethos" in addressing China's aggression in the Taiwan Strait.
Switzerland's Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis issued a warning to Chinese authorities and the Chinese embassy in Switzerland following the military drills.
According to Taiwan's MND, 11 out of 19 sorties crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered Taiwan's southwestern Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ).
Of the 45 aircraft, 34 crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered the island's central and southwestern Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), the MND said.
Of the 11 aircraft, nine crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered the island's northern, central, southwestern and southeastern Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), the MND said.
The Ministry of National Defense (MND) detected 36 sorties of People's Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft and 8 People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) vessels operating around Taiwan as of 6 am (UTC+8) today.
Out of those, 15 crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered the northern, central and southwestern Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) in conducting air-sea joint training along with other naval vessels, according to Taiwan's MND.