Taiwan says China opening flight path raises regional unease

Taipei condemned connected Sunday (July 6, 2025) China's determination to unfastened a delicate aviation way that runs done the Taiwan Strait, informing the alteration could summation tensions betwixt the 2 sides and "regional unease".

Taiwan's apical China argumentation assemblage criticised Beijing aft its civilian aviation authorization opened different west-to-east connecting way supra the delicate waterway.

China has shown "complete disregard for the statement of some sides and Taiwan's nationalist opinion, utilizing unilateral actions to alteration the presumption quo and summation cross-strait and determination unease", Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council said.

Beijing adjusted the M503 north-to-south way done the Taiwan Strait successful January 2024 and opened 2 west-to-east connecting formation paths months later.

The newly-activated west-to-east way is intended to "alleviate the unit caused by the summation of flights", China's Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson Chen Binhua said Sunday (July 6, 2025), quoted by authorities quality bureau Xinhua.

But Taipei's Mainland Affairs Council denied determination had been an summation successful aerial traffic.

It said China had "unilaterally violated the consensus" 3 times by launching the routes without consulting Taiwan and urged Beijing to prosecute successful negotiations.

"The existent cross-strait and Asia-Pacific concern is complex, the Mainland's unilateral actions volition escalate determination tensions, which nary enactment wishes to see," the Council said.

Beijing insists antiauthoritarian Taiwan is portion of its territory and has ne'er renounced the usage of unit to bring the self-ruled land nether its control.

Beijing regularly deploys combatant jets, warships and seashore defender ships adjacent Taiwan, and has held respective large subject exercises astir the land successful caller years.