Hong Kong, Jan. 6 -- China's military coercion of Taiwan has become routine. Few blink twice at the scale of People's Liberation Army (PLA) activity targeting Taiwan nowadays, a norm China has been deliberately striving to achieve.

In 2025 the PLA conducted 5,317 sorties - a daily average of 15 - around Taiwan. Of these, Chinese military aircraft crossed the Taiwan Strait median line 3,867 times and

entered Taiwan's self-declared air defense identification zone (ADIZ).

Indeed, last year saw a 22.4% annual increase in the number of PLA aircraft entering Taiwan's ADIZ. The number of such provocative flights mushroomed from 972 in 2021, equating to a 287% increase in just four years. This is all part of Chairman Xi Jinping's strategy of b...