Topping this episode: The US is urging China to stop what it calls its “provocative” military activities near Taiwan. This comes after close to 100 Chinese military aircraft entered the island’s air defense zone over a three-day period in what’s being called the largest air incursion by Beijing to date. Taiwan’s defense ministry says that China sent 38 planes in two waves on Friday and 39 on Saturday near the Pratas Islands and in the Bashi Channel and that it scrambled aircraft to warn away the Chinese warplanes.
