China sends warplanes near Taiwan after US rejects strait claim

BEIJING (Bloomberg): China sent its third-largest sortie of warplanes toward Taiwan this year, after the US rejected Chinese claims over the Taiwan Strait and reports of arms sales talks with Taipei in Washington.

Twenty-nine Chinese aircraft, including six H-6 bombers and an electronic intelligence gathering plane, entered Taiwan’s southwestern air defenCe identification zone Tuesday, according to a tweet from the Ministry of National Defense in Taipei.