Offstream
news

The National Defense Ministry of Taiwan says that more than 30 Chinese PLA Air Force warplanes have entered Taiwanese airspace and that at least nine PLA Navy warships have been detected around Taiwan. The ROC Armed Forces are deployed in response to the violation.
2024-04-3

It is announced that a record seventy-one military vehicles from the Chinese Air Force entered Taiwan's air defense identification zone in the past 24 hours.
2022-12-26

A People's Liberation Army Air Force Chengdu J-7 aircraft crashes in a residential area in Laohekou, Hubei, China, killing at least one person on the ground as the pilot ejects out of the aircraft.
2022-06-9

A total of 52 People's Liberation Army Air Force aircraft fly into Taiwan's southwestern air defense identification zone, the Ministry of National Defense says on Twitter. This amounts to 145 Chinese aircraft which have flown into Taiwan's air defense area this month
2021-10-4

Rescuers find a second survivor from the presumed wreck of the Panamanian-flagged cargo ship "Gulf Livestock 1". A body was also pulled from the East China Sea.
2020-09-4

Taiwan scrambles its air force to intercept Chinese jets after they circled the island during a combat drill. The drill is denounced by the Taiwanese Defense Ministry as a violation of its sovereignty.
2020-02-9

The U.S. cruiser USS "Chancellorsville" and the Russian destroyer "Admiral Vinogradov" almost collide in the western Pacific Ocean. Each side blames the other, and their reports disagree as to the location of the incident: Russia claims it happened in the East China Sea, while the U.S. says it was in the nearby Philippine Sea.
2019-06-7

A North Korean merchant ship loaded with coal, seized by the United States in the East China Sea for suspected sanctions violation, arrives in Pago Pago, American Samoa.
2019-05-11

For the first time the United States seizes a North Korean merchant ship loaded with coal in the East China Sea sailing toward Indonesia. The ship is suspected of violating sanctions.
2019-05-9

Yang Jiechi, the Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China, calls for Japan to immediately release a fishing boat captain captured in disputed waters in the East China Sea.
2010-09-10