This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bacheler.

Here's John Bacheler.

Gordon Chang, my colleague and co-host at Gordongy Chang, type A times Tom Taiwan in these

last days.

PLA Activity, Abnormal Ministry says.

The Defense Ministry of Taiwan says that it had detected 24 Chinese People's Liberation

Army Air Force planes entering Taiwan's air defense zone over the previous 24 hours

this dates to the weekend.

The Minister of National Defense says that this is abnormal, that's a quote.

We go immediately to our guide on Taiwan.

Steve Yates, Steve has been watching this for many years and therefore patterns emerge

over a long period of time.

Steve is now chair of the American First Policy and Institutes China Policy Initiative.

Steve, do I put this down to training getting crowded in the sky or a purposeful message

sending?

Good day to you.

Hello, John.

Well, I would put this definitely in the category of purposeful and message sending in that

the sheer numbers and frequency of this kind of encroachment is well outside of the normal

pattern of what's been done over many, many years.

I think has a very clear intent to normalize this in the eyes of everyone, including observers

in Taiwan, the United States, Japan, elsewhere, so that the time and distance between some

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