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An aerial show of force from the Chinese military, the largest incursion ever inside Taiwan's

air defense zone. 56 planes nearly 150 flights since Chinese National Day Friday. China

views Taiwan as a breakaway province, and Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to bring

the island under Chinese Communist Party control.

He said time and time again, we're going to resolve this issue with Taiwan.

If it has to be by force, it will be by force. And we're not going to pass this problem on to

the next generation.

Yes, so China has been flying a war planes into Taiwan's air defense space.

And the last couple of days, as you heard there, over a hundred military aircraft have flown

near Taiwan. That's between Friday and Sunday, including 80 fighter jets, four bombers,

five anti-subplanes, and four early warning aircraft. That seems fairly provocative.

The question is, what is China up to? We have a number of questions. And Mike Lyons,

military analyst, joins us, Mike served with various military organizations, both the United

States and Europe throughout his career. Mike, welcome. How are you?

Hey guys, so good to be back with you.

Thank you. Yeah, it's always a pleasure. So I just have a very basic question. What's an air

defense space? I assume that's different than their national air space.

Right, it's 12 miles outside the border of where the land hits. And so each country has

an area through international law that says they own space 12 miles outside of where the land starts.

And so when you get outside, inside of that, you're allowed to defend your land space.

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